Word: six-and-a-half
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Each team bore down defensively for the final six-and-a-half minutes of the game. Argentieri was all over the place, getting steals and hitting free throws. She played eerily calmly in her first collegiate road game. Although Harvard made a final run in the last several minutes, time was not on its side as it was forced to foul...
...Weld's six-and-a-half years in the governor's office were a departure from the bedrock of Massachusetts liberalism...
...Cleveland Avenue grammar school in Atlanta, children go through six-and-a-half hours without any free time, except for a 30-minute lunch. Even then they must sit at the table and cannot mill about and talk to friends. The building itself, built two years ago, does not even have a playground. When five-year old Toya Gray was asked about recess, she was puzzled. "What's recess?" she asked. Something is terribly wrong here...
...Freeh was determined to present a united front; he wanted to sit at Reno's side. So, Democrats introduced a resolution to that effect; it was defeated. Freeh settled for a seat behind Reno, at her elbow (at least they'd be pictured together.) And loyally waited ? for six-and-a-half hours ? while his counterpart testified. Observed TIME Washington correspondent Elaine Shannon: "Aides were dropping like flies...
...even Krenz got off lightly: The 60-year-old will serve only six-and-a-half years for six counts of manslaughter ? that's little over a year per civilian killed, and a drop in the 900-person ocean of people killed trying to escape from East Germany. "There's very little vendetta in the air," says TIME's Bonn bureau chief, Jordan Bonfante. "Germans are not in the mood for a witch hunt. They have enough problems trying to consolidate eastern into western Germany." Krenz, it seems, was simply the one holding the ball when the Wall fell...