Word: dozen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...following Pia's epiphany, the cloth has been removed from its silver casket not just for the public but also to several waves of scientific observers. The trend's high point occurred in 1978, when the Roman Catholic Church allowed a five-day extravaganza during which more than two dozen scientists from the U.S., Italy and Switzerland performed a battery of tests on the shroud and also used pieces of tape to lift material from its surface for later study. The tests included photo- and electron microscopy, X rays, spectroscopy, ultraviolet fluorescence, thermography and chemical analyses. Among the scientists' findings...
...releases, "Silver Springs" and "The Landslide" clog the easy-listening airwaves. Fleetwood Mac even made an appearance at this year's Grammy Awards, singing a medley of their "favourites." Although the performance seemed rushed and dissonant (as medleys often do by virtue of fitting half a dozen hits into two minutes of stage time), the crowd did not seem to mind. The applause, especially from the forty-something section of the audience, was thunderous...
Parents and educators must realize that young children need to spend time without fancy rules or regulations. Children have enormous potential. Give them a stick and they'll figure out a million uses for it. Show them a stream, and they'll find a dozen ways to cross. Leave them alone and they'll invent worlds. And who knows, maybe 50 years later, they'll have invented a whole lot more...
...baby to the Energizer bunny. In some cases, like Energizer's battery-powered rodent, there might be a remote connection between the gimmick and the product. But, as the ubiquitous dancing baby proves, this need not be the case. So what is one to expect when seeing half a dozen crazed men hurdling couches after some strange guy yells "Surge...
...year-olds have been told they weren't quite good enough for that unpaid internship in Congress or that menial job at Newsweek. Twenty-year-olds have been told they weren't quite good enough for that thesis grant or prestigious fellowship. And 21-year-olds by the dozen have been told they weren't quite good enough for Yale Law or johns Hopkins Med., for that job at McKinsey or Goldman, Sachs...