Word: eighteens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Thirty-six nations have representatives at the Vatican. Eighteen predominantly Catholic countries (e.g., Brazil) send ambassadors. But 18 other countries (e.g., Great Britain) send only ministers...
...gets bored with purely student pranks, there are always bigger and more professional jobs to concentrate on. In the spring of 1949, for instance, three strange things happened. Eighteen hundred pounds of lead and radioactive cobalt was stolen, three Rembrandt etchings valued at $11,000 were stolen and an alumnus disappeared. Kopliner retrieved the cobalt through the blood stains of the thief, but the etchings, along with $11,000 worth of stamps from Brown, and $11,000 worth of Aztec trinkets from Penn, are still missing. The alumnus turned up a year and a half later trapped in a sunken...
...complete charge of children until they are toilet trained, and the television set takes over from there on in." Since she obviously has nothing to do, Groggle feels that his wife should pack the combined sex appeal "of Lana Turner, Merle Oberon, his mother in a tinted tintype at eighteen, the latest magazine cover girl, and Miss Rheingold...
...Eighteen independents are running. They have never been able to combine into a well-knit group but, if they should, might easily carry the election. On an individual basis, each has consistently received a larger vote than any one CCA candidate. Spencer believes that they will spread the vote by campaigning independently of one another and so defeat themselves. The only time that the independents tried to combine against the CCA, they failed. This was in 1949. The independents lead by former mayor John W. Lyons (now publisher of the weekly Cambridge Courier), held a secret meeting at the Hotel...
...Eighteen months later, after all known homosexuals in the area had been questioned, the police heard of a teen-aged orphan who was boasting to his friends of a similar crime. This type of report reaches police headquarters every day, but on checking, they found that his story was consistent with what he medico-legal examiner had found...