Word: eighteens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...United States. Two weeks later, Paris fell and, with a million other Parisians, I was in my car on the roads of southern France. Eventually, I reached Marseilles and saw the American consul there. He informed me that I could not go to America since the Latvian quota (eighteen people per year) was filled for the next seven years. My sister and my wife visited Professor Einstein and it was through his personal intervention that my name was added to the list of writers and artists in the South of France who were given Rescue Committee's emergency visas...
Scott Hamilton, who was a Jimmy Fund patient when he was two years old, will also perform this weekend. Hamilton was expected to die of a form of leukemia by the age of six. Now, at eighteen, he has already competed in the Men's Senior Championship...
...Eighteen years ago next month, a National Airlines plane leased from Pan American took off from New York for Miami. It was a routine flight except that the plane had no propellers. Commercial jetliner service in the U.S. had begun, and with it the inescapable problem that faces people and airplanes alike: aging. About 90 jet planes currently used by major U.S. airlines are almost as old as the commercial jet age itself. The average age of the U.S. fleet is 7.9 years; hundreds of aircraft are nine to twelve years old. To replace aging aircraft, airlines will need...
Radcliffe played aggressively in the first half, dominating the game with eighteen shots on goal, but could not overpower the Brown goalkeeper...
MEET CONRAD JARRETT, ordinary American High School kid with A grades and a varsity letter. He's a shy, quiet isolated type of guy--the kind that's always worrying about being polite, maintaining control, not offending anyone. But there is something wrong with Conrad Jarrett. At eighteen he's a failed suicide with red-scarred wrists to prove it and eight months in a hospital to show for it. Conrad is scared of something inside himself, something that makes him feel like a piece of glass on the verge of shattering. What Conrad is afraid...