Word: fourteens
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...beginning to look a little winded. Cleveland, smarting under four straight defeats by the Yankees, was falling behind the pace, too. The two hottest teams in the league were the hard-hitting (team batting average: .307) Boston Red Sox, in 3rd place after winning twelve of their last fourteen games, and the Yankees...
...Fourteen agencies were told by the White House to take a reef in federal public-works programs. Secretary of Agriculture Charles F. Brannan was busy looking for a way to spell "Brannan Plan" backwards. After two years of campaigning to give farmers permanent high incomes, he was under White House orders to work out a scheme for keeping food prices from going any higher...
...their spare time, Luc's fellow teenagers introduce him to a dream world in which the models are Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall. (Fourteen-year-old Josette practices screaming into the wind until her voice approximates the right cracked huskiness; Luc tries to imitate Gunman Bogart.) Off & on, Luc sits in on an interminable argument between Black-Marketeer Vanderputte and a friend on the police force who comes to visit him every week. Vanderputte stands up for the dignity of man and humanitarian optimism; the police official, Kuhl, stands up for Communism and the need for iron discipline. Vanderputte...
Seventeen hundred and fifteen students, or 36 percent of the College, east ballots in the dining halls at lunchtime. Fourteen ballots were unclassifiable...
Last week a crewman got left off the Council election ballot in Winthrop House, and fourteen crew members were granted an exclusive right to absentee ballots. In six other House elections there was a discrepancy between the number of ballots cast and the number of names checked off, and in two of these cases the discrepancy was sufficient to require a revote. This looseness in following election rules and procedure points up a need for more careful conduct of Council elections...