Word: six
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Then the bottom fell out. Six straight losses. Some of them close, some of them ugly. All of them frustrating...
...Veritas: Senior Co-Captain Steve Lux was selected as the team's MVP at a banquet last week. Lux scored six goals against UNH on May 3 to bring him within two points of Cavuoti on the scoring list...
...pyramids," laments Hawass, "are the only monuments in the world where you can drive up and park your car. Even in Disneyland you have to park a mile away." Last year alone 1,969,493 visitors came to look at -- and touch and breathe on -- Egypt's treasures. Just six people breathing inside a tomb for an hour can raise the humidity by 5 percentage points. And higher humidity provides a hospitable environment for bacteria, algae and fungi that grow on paintings. Sighs Hassan: "Three thousand people a day visit King Tut's tomb. They sweat. I can't prevent...
...physicists in Baltimore was more like an unusually hot celebrity roast. This elite clan convened a special panel to comment on the instant fame of Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann, two chemists who had dared to venture from their field into the private domain of nuclear physicists. Less than six weeks earlier, Pons, of the University of Utah, and Fleischmann, of Britain's University of Southampton, claimed to have achieved nuclear fusion, the process that powers the sun, at room temperature. Because the experiment produced much more energy than it consumed, said the chemists, it could lead to the development...
...seventh floor of the school library still refused to free the five policemen they held hostage. When 20 policemen tried to break into the room, the captors tossed fire bombs at a hallway barricade that they had soaked with kerosene and paint thinner. The raiders were not lucky: six policemen died, and ten were seriously injured...