Word: fourteeners
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...ONCE the antidote to post-Christmas exams, the only friend more reliable than the family dog: the fourteen magical days that made all that procrastination possible, Reading Period. And now, it becomes painfully clear, there will be only eleven. During no other now-missing three days will more Tolstoy not be read, more papers not get written, more drawn-out two hour lunches never take place. It may not be dying yet, but Reading Period is becoming only a shadow of its former frenzied self...
...Fourteen hours before the opening kickoff, the Lions faithful have flooded the city. And they've already started queuing...
...Fourteen years ago, I received a Sears TV as a gift. The set is still going strong and has never been repaired. Although I am only 25, I am wondering which will last longer...
Burton loved to brag about how much he could drink, but his bouts with booze caused Taylor to divorce him in 1974. Fourteen months later they remarried in Botswana, with two rhinos and a hippo among the witnesses; but a second divorce soon followed. He married, divorced and married again. His fourth wife Sally was with him last week when he was stricken at their modest villa in the Swiss village of Céligny, where, dressed in red, the Welsh national color, he was also buried. The services included the familiar words of Dylan Thomas and the strains...
...Fourteen-year-old Gregory Martin was arrested in New York City in 1977 for robbing another youth of his jacket and sneakers. A family-court judge ordered Martin held under New York's preventive-detention law. That meant the teenager was being confined not to ensure his appearance at trial but because he was regarded as a serious risk to commit new crimes while waiting for his case to come up. Martin and his attorney filed a class action on behalf of all children in preventive-detention in New York State, and won in two federal courts. Last week...