Word: fourteeners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...advance, the anonymous saboteurs gave 100 night workers an opportunity to evacuate the endangered buildings, and no injuries resulted from the explosions. But by making sure the threat was carried out, the bombers also gave credence to 137 anonymous bomb scares which flooded the city during the next fourteen hours. The threats caused the evacuation of thousand from apartments, college dormitories, and the offices of the New York Times...
...Eastern Intercollegiate Baseball League, consisting of the Ivy League, Army, and Navy, will expand its league schedule this spring to fourteen games rather than the traditional nine game competition. The new format will severely test the Crimson's pitching depth...
...significant when you know that the one seven million ton harvest was in 1952, when sugar was really the only Cuban export worth mentioning (besides cigars) and tens of thousands of hungry cane-cutters who could find work only during the four-or five-month harvest had to work fourteen or fifteen hours a day for an average daily wage of 80 cents. Now the entire economic organization is incomparably better, and there are grappling machines to pick up the cane and trucks with huge carts attached to them to carry the cane instead of the ancient little horse-drawn...
...clean clothes in good condition and looked as healthy as white teenagers from Newton. The contrast with my memories of Guatemala and Mexico was amazing. And the way people related to us, and this was true all over Cuba, was as equals. Immediately kids of thirteen and fourteen, girls as well as boys, would come up to us in the street and ask us questions to start a conversation, overjoyed to get the chance to discuss their schools, the careers they wanted to pursue, and to find out about the revolutionary movement in the United States. They all knew about...
...fourteen hundred ninety...