Word: dozen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Brewers in a new league. The Detroit Tigers in a different division. A dozen members of the World Series champion Marlins now scattered...
Knox and some two dozen other top surfers showed up at Todos Santos because Collins had predicted a spectacular swell at that particular time at that particular place. They brought with them their longest surfboards, because the longer the board, the faster it cuts through water. A 50-ft. wave, after all, travels at speeds in excess of 20 m.p.h., and anyone who's too slow at the approach risks being smashed. Every so often, in fact, a big-wave surfer dies. This year Jet Ski rescue teams provided backup, and there have been no fatalities...
...tease out his life story ("John, tell how you enrolled at Stanford because you thought it was near Hollywood"). To perfect the new show's details, Markus and Franken became flies on the wall at Nightline. "It's amazing how much access you can get when you bring a dozen cappuccinos and a box of muffins," says Franken...
...watched the Ohio town meeting live on television and saw it differently from the way you reported it, and so did all my friends. There were perhaps a dozen rude, nihilistic hecklers with no concern for courtesy, order and civility, and we thought they needed to be forcibly removed. Yet instead of focusing on audience support for Secretary Madeleine Albright and applause for her admonition that the rest of the audience wanted to hear what the Administration officials had to say, the American media widely broadcast the protests in 60-second sound bites. I live close to Saddam's borders...
...While half a dozen other companies offered competing browsers, Mozilla and its successor, Netscape Navigator, quickly became the best way to get around the World Wide Web. It was to the Web what Windows is to PCs; both had an 85% market share...