Word: half-hour
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...morning, 100 policemen surrounded the factory, which sits amid the Victorian terrace houses of Manchester's Openshaw district. Officers calmly asked the workers to move away from the factory gates and the 15-ft. wall surrounding the compound. Slowly the picketers obeyed, glaring at police during a tense half-hour...
Revised questionnaires for the CUE Course evaluation guide also drew CUE's approval, after the body spent a half-hour modifying wording on the expanded questionnaire...
...exercise strenuously (tennis, running, swimming, etc.) five times a week for at least a half-hour, add 4. Two or three times a week...
...side to this is that each crew has its moment in the sun, no matter how poorly it does. The boats glide one-by-one under the packed Anderson Bridge, and throngs of enthusiastic well-wishers lend their support to each vessel. Only when the times become known a half-hour after the event ends are the winners determined. For the fans, the results often remain unknown unless they read the agate type in the next day's Globe...
Milosz's poetry contrasts favorably with the contemporary language of mass culture. Baranczak said, concluding his half-hour discussion by quoting Milosz: "We are endowed with language; we should make the best use of what we have...