Word: fourteeners
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Fourteen years ago, I was a new graduate nurse employed in a Veterans Administration medical center. I thought it was unconscionable for the hospital to distribute scrip for the patients to obtain free cigarettes in the hospital commissary while nurses administered chemotherapy to cancer patients who smoked. Patients were grotesquely disfigured by the surgical removal of facial cancers or had legs amputated because of vascular disease caused by cigarette addiction. Many of these veterans told me their first cigarettes were courtesy of the military while they were in the service. How ironic that war did not maim or kill these...
Earlier this week, I was part of the 6 p.m. rush to get home. An unkempt man was trying to make conversation with a fashionable woman decked out in a Chanel-style jacket and tailored pants. "You look about fourteen," he said to the obviously forty-something woman. "Do you know that if you were a dog, you would be two?" The woman let out a nervous peal of laughter, uncertain whether the conversion from human to dog years was a blatant attempt to impress her or the tangential musings of a madman. At the sound of her voice, three...
...Fourteen hours after Bok's announcement, on April 20, two dozen students used crowbars to enter Mass. Hall through a window...
...Fourteen miles of fun, six miles of sweat and six miles of hell...
...After fourteen hours of Garth Brooks, some first-years begin to question the attention paid to their rooming forms...