Word: nineteen
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...Nineteen forty-eight was the year that Palestinians saw their destiny—their right to self-determination—taken from them,” Sarafa says. “Now you tell me how you rejoice over a year in which there was so much suffering, in which so many Palestinians died…It’s like the USA saying ‘Let’s party like it’s Aug. 6, 1945,’” he says, referring to the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima...
...With nineteen minutes to play, Crimson coach Sue Caples called a timeout to awaken her team. With the players circled around her, Caples’ strong voice seemed to give her team the intensity it so desperately needed...
...people on the New York City subway when the power went out. Nineteen trains were in underwater tunnels...
...missed out completely on the right of every growing child: pissing off my parents. So last week, at the still-teenage age of nineteen, I cut out of work a bit early, went to an East Village tattoo parlor, and had a little “work” done...
...clear the real draw is not the glitz but the cash. Winnings can range from ?15 to ?1.5 million and someone nabs a prize every three minutes. With a bingo tax cut included in Britain's new budget, players will now take home more prize money. Nineteen-year-old Nicola Frew likes those odds. After being dragged to a game by her mother, she pocketed ?650. Now she plays three times a week. "I just enjoy the adrenaline," she says. "The rush you feel waiting for that one number." The game is strangely addictive. After the initial shock of seeing...