Word: dozen
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...encourage them to join his team, he was confident enough to vow at a rally in Dijon on April 23 that he would "seal no alliances to the detriment of my convictions." It's unlikely that he'll need to do so. André Santini, one of half a dozen udf mainstays who have moved into the Sarkozy camp, says, "We've already seen Sarkozy talking more about Bayrou's issues, like cutting the debt and reinforcing social supports." Santini adds: "You have to go back decades to see a first-round result like Sarkozy...
Less than a dozen years after the founding of Jamestown, about 20 Africans from what is now Angola were sold to settlers of the fledgling colony. They found themselves in a raw, chaotic frontier society in which the English settlers were still trying to figure out the best way to survive and turn a profit...
...current Major League Baseball home run leader, but he is lagging behind the Crimson’s own freshman softball star Lauren Murphy in balls knocked out of the park. The score entering yesterday: Murphy, 13 homers, A-Rod, 12.Murphy’s baker’s dozen would be good enough to lead the MLB, and it is certainly sufficient to be the best in the Ivy League, as she has accumulated three more home runs than the next in line, Penn’s Annie Kinsey, a two-time First-team All-Ivy second baseman...
...parking lot jammed with hundreds of television satellite trucks last week was down to its last two dozen this morning. The press center - standing-room-only a few days ago - had plenty of open seats...
...soldiers, already doubtful of the coup's legality and loath to open fire on unarmed fellow citizens, trained their guns away from the building and joined in its defense. The coup collapsed, and within a year the Soviet Union was no more. That freed more than a dozen countries to chart their own future, offered the hope of democracy to the 150 million people of Russia, and eliminated the Cold War threat of nuclear holocaust. As Yeltsin put it in his 1994 book Struggle for Russia, "I believe that history will record the twentieth century essentially ended Aug. 19 through...