Word: dozen
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Several dozen students held a silent vigil on the steps of Memorial Hall yesterday to honor civilians killed in the Gaza Strip last week...
...meeting offered faculty the first chance to discuss the committee’s preliminary report in a public setting. The report calls for the replacement of the Core Curriculum—and its emphasis on approaches to knowledge—with a program focused on subject matter. Over a dozen professors spoke—some endorsed the proposal, while others rose to criticize its rationale and the five broad areas of inquiry it would create. Bass Professor of English and American Literature and Language Louis Menand, the other co-chair of the general education committee, characterized the overall faculty reception...
...Best in Show,” “Waiting for Guffman,” and “A Mighty Wind”—have created a genre all their own. In this collaboration, Guest and Levy rejoin their usual ensemble of a dozen or so outstanding character actors to give a farcical inside look at their own game, filmmaking. Combining improvisational dialogue and a loose plot-line, the “mockumentary” gives attention to both the obscure and mundane in a light that exceeds most comedic standards. The film centers around the making...
...businessman shouting a phrase that is now well-known to the strip’s fans: “Yes! Operation: Enduring Our Freedom To Bomb The Living Fuck Out Of You is in the house!!!” Still produced with a direct simplicity, GYWO features roughly a dozen clip-art illustrations of nameless office workers.But after five years of merciless lampooning and, recently, nationwide Democratic victories, Rees is anticipating the end of GYWO. He says he will end the strip when Bush leaves office in 2008.“I figured I would just keep...
...same store also carried mosquito spray and those bug zappers that you plug into a power outlet, hoping it will kill all the mosquitoes in the room. Having been massacred by mosquitoes the night before despite smearing myself with repellent, I piled half a dozen zappers onto the counter, along with a loaf of bread, some cheese and crackers and some bottles of water. The woman at the register proceeded to wipe the dust off each item in turn before ringing...