Word: sixteen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...extend to each employee at Harvard University a cordial invitation to join with over sixteen million American workingmen in pursuit for higher wages, improved working conditions and our just share in the prosperity of the nation...
...made some records (Mule Train, Shotgun Boogie) that led to a guest appearance in Las Vegas. "I was scared to death to play before an audience of sophisticates and gamblers." In 1955, with his driving, metronome sense of rhythm, he recorded a coal miner's bitter lament called Sixteen Tons ("Saint Peter, don't you call me 'cause I can't go, I owe my soul to the company sto' "). Aided by some ingenious orchestration, it shot to the top of the nation's bestseller lists as fast as any record ever made...
...thirty-two straight Plays presented, sixteen were major productions, fourteen were Theatre Work-shop productions (exactly half of which were given over to original student scripts), and two were concert readings under the aegis of the Workshop. The plays drew from many categories: ancient Greek, medieval morality, Shakespearean and other Elizabethan drama, eighteenth-century comedy, nineteenth-century Russian and modern European and American drama. The other thirteen items were musical, comprising eighteenth-and nineteenth-century comedy and modern American comedy and tragedy...
...victory at Dienbienphu, Roman Catholic Diem (his family has been Catholic since the 17th century) took office just as the big powers at Geneva were about to halt the Indo-China war by splitting Viet Nam in two-with the industrialized northern half going to Communist Ho Chi Minh. Sixteen months later Nationalist Diem took the final step. Overwhelmingly victorious in a national referendum which ousted the French puppet-Emperor, and named Diem chief of state, he proclaimed Viet Nam a republic, became its first President. Even with firm U.S. support and massive doses of military and economic...
...contended that vengeful racketeers and politicians had tried to frame him, quietly moved from the defendant's bench to the press table, calmly picked up his pencil and paper, and started covering the rest of the case against 17 other Oklahomans who were charged with conspiracy. Sixteen of them, including the police commissioner, police chief and six members of the force, were convicted...