Word: sixteen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Narciso sees what just six years of white rule can do: Christianized Indians who die rather than work and who, through mere imprisonment, die in a few days "like fish in a bucket." Hardly has Don Narciso got his shore legs when he witnesses the burning alive of sixteen here tics; he sees next what happens to 20,000 Indians in spontaneous desperate rebellion. Stark naked, all of them, men, women and children, they advance in a brown wave, using stones and sharpened sticks, to dissolve into panic before the first volley from the crossbows. Narciso is enough...
...Sixteen months ago, Clarence K. Streit (Union Now) proposed a union of democracies against the Nazi tide. Since then, disunited democracies have collapsed like sand castles. This week, in a full-page advertisement ("paid for by a group of American citizens") appearing in the New York Times, Streit proposed "UNION NOW . . . [of] the U. S. A. and the Six British Democracies . . . before it is too late...
...Chicago's Armour Institute of Technology started a summer course for key industrialists on new developments in defense methods, imported sixteen of the nation's best engineers and scientists as instructors...
...Sixteen years ago a handsome young Episcopal rector of Christ Church, Macon, Ga., heard that his name was up for nomination to the Bishopric of Florida. He withdrew his name, protesting that he was "much too young." Thirteen years later, Oliver James Hart III, now rector of St. John's ("The Church of the Presidents") in Washington, D. C., again declined, this time to become Bishop Coadjutor of Tennessee. In the next 16 months he turned down two more bishoprics: the Dioceses of Central New York and Delaware...
...Sixteen students have formed a committee to raise money at Harvard to contribute to the Red Cross drive for funds for the relief of the invaded nations of Europe, it was announced yesterday...