Word: sixteen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sixteen Essex-class, the Saratoga, Enterprise and Ranger, and eight Independence-class...
...close-cropped Joseph Pulitzer Jr. has eyes so weak that he can read only headlines. Two secretaries spend five to seven hours a day reading to him; his wife takes over in the evening. He conscientiously keeps up with plays and books which have a chance for Pulitzer Prizes. Sixteen weeks of the year he spends in a rented cottage at Bar Harbor, Me., duck-hunting in the Ozarks or fishing in Quebec -but keeps in telephone contact with his editors, and peppers them with yellow memos. Blind in one eye, and able to see only silhouettes with the other...
...transport cruising slowly back & forth off the sulphurous, bloody hulk of Iwo Jima, Navy doctors knew there was no chance for Sergeant Charles Carter Anderson Jr., U.S.M.C.; he would never see the sun again. Sixteen hours after the young marine had been brought aboard, he died. His death certificate was filled out and sent to the captain of the ship. Grimly the skipper signed it: Captain Charles Carter Anderson, U.S.N...
...Sunday the cast, including its bright particular star, Chief Boatswain's Mate Victor Mature,* lunched at the swank Capitano Country Club. Later a new, 85-ft. Canadian Navy tug stood by to take everybody for a joy ride. Chief Mature and most of the troupe pleaded other engagements. Sixteen SPARS and five tars accepted...
Spring Term--Normal Sixteen Weeks...