Word: fourteens
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...beginning, when the Allies were in despair, Woodrow Wilson published his famed Fourteen Points. Their impact was immediate, enormous, beyond all hopes. Little peoples of Central Europe scrambled for what they now saw clearly, for the first time, were their rights: self-determination of government, open covenants, freedom of the seas, removal of trade barriers, a general association of nations on principles of good will, reduction of armaments. The 14 points became the greatest victory of the war, and Woodrow Wilson was the victor...
...without the approval of Britain and France, who subsequently sabotaged it; the eight were a joint commitment. If Europeans did not distrust the promise of equal economic opportunity for victor and vanquished, there was a chance that the eight might have some of the same effect as the fourteen had 23 years earlier...
With the plodding thoroughness of Henry James developing a character in fourteen chapters, Playwright Robert Sherwood as director of "Adam-Had Four Sons" has made it into a psychological dissection of an upperclass family during the last war. Warner Baxter, stouter than in his matinee idol days but still a portrayer of semi-phlegmatic emotion, acts the bachelor-ed broker whose love for his housekeeper (Ingrid Bergman) is disturbed by her suspicious actions in protecting him from knowledge of the unfaithfulness of his daughter-in-law. Susan Hayward looks, as well as plays, the part of the scheming minx...
...Fourteen-year-old Robert Tyre Jones Jr. stood on the first tee of Philadelphia's Merion Cricket Club golf course, his palms clammy, his knees quaking. Murmurous around, the tee was a surf of faces. For Bobby Jones, Atlanta's Boy Wonder, was the youngest golfer ever to compete in the National Amateur...
...number of men already registered, however, the status of 85 of them is still in doubt. Fourteen of the 85 do not know what date they will be called, 13 are deferred or exempted, while 58 others are still unclassified...