Word: eighteens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Leckie now leads the team in scoring with ten goals and eight assists for eighteen points...
...questioning his suspect, he stops suddenly to ask: "How much did you pay for those shoes?" After a pause, the nonplussed suspect answers: "Forty dollars." "What I wanted to ask," confides Columbo, "is do ya' have any idea where I can get a pair like that for around eighteen...
...have a fixed I.Q. from birth to death, nor do all children even from childhood through adolescence. The ten-year-old with an I.Q. of 100 may score 120 by the end of adolescence; the child with an I.Q. of 130 may drop to 120 by age eighteen. Beyond late adolescence the I.Q. itself is meaningless, and the modern widespread testing of I.Q. among late adolescents and young adults as a criterion for admission to universities is particularly harmful, since history shows that many persons who later made enormous contributions to society did poorly on I.Q. tests and were excluded...
...Eighteen Radcliffe swimmers and divers overcame a 50-member University of New Hampshire team Friday afternoon, 64-40. In a surprising first-meet performance, the team members qualified a 200-yard freestyle relay and a 50-yard individual butterfly event for the National Intercollegiate meet to be held at Penn State this March...
Frustrated by his life as a struggling dairyman in Scotland, Dougal Robertson did what many men only dream of. Trading his farm for Lucette, a 43-ft. wooden schooner, he set off on a round-the-world cruise. Eighteen months later and 200 miles west of the Galápagos Islands, his yacht was hit by killer whales and sank in one minute. Robertson, his wife Lyn, their three sons, Douglas, 18, and the twins Neil and Sandy, 12, and a Welsh student guest, Robin Williams, 22, were adrift on the Pacific...