Word: sixteen
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Moments later, police were pouring a barrage of tear gas and machine gun shells into a nearby apartment to which Carpenter fled when he heard the sirens. Sixteen minutes after Powell's call at 9:01 Thursday night, Carpenter staggered into the arms of four furious policemen, begging, "Don't shoot! Don't shoot!" Screamed sweating crowds in the street: "Kill him! Kill him!" Thoroughly bloodied from police punches, but still alive, Carpenter whispered with hoarse surprise: "They would have killed me if they could...
...South Hadley Falls, Mass., lugged a suitcase up to Patrick Hall on Denver's Lowry Air Force Base and reported to a sleepy master sergeant. Said Bourque: "I figure it would be something to tell my kids I was the first air cadet in the U.S." Sixteen hours and 45 minutes later, Bourque and 305 other members of the first class at the U.S. Air Force Academy were sound asleep after a double-timed day that included drill, a dedication ceremony, physical examinations (one cadet had measles), lectures, assignments, hazing, uniform issue and an allowance ($3 for the rest...
Rosa Ponselle Sings Today (Victor). Sixteen songs recently recorded by the famed Metropolitan Opera soprano who retired while she was on top in 1937. The bloom is gone from her voice, but it has moments of velvety smoothness, and its tone quality is even from bottom to top. Diva Ponselle still has a masterly command of expression that warms up even the oldest chestnuts. Among her selections: Schubert's Erlkönig, Brahms's Von ewiger Liebe, Sadero's Amuri, amuri...
...create the splendor of Etruria, the largest collection of Etruscan art ever assembled was on exhibit last week in Milan's Royal Palace. Sixteen rooms were needed to show 422 pieces dating from the 8th to the ist century B.C. They were drawn from 43 museums and private collections. They fit together into a fresh and fascinating picture of a civilization which, Roman Historian Livy wrote, "filled not only the earth but also the sea for the whole length of Italy, from the Alps to the Straits of Messina...
...play." Not until she is 14 does the play show Dorothea happy, living with "My Aunt Sarah, who was my first real friend." In Boston, at 23, Dorothea Dix is engaged, but proves so reluctant to give up work in the school she has started that the romance collapses. Sixteen years later, on her first visit to the East Cambridge jail, where lunatics are kept alongside prisoners, one inmate snarls at her: "You couldn't attract a man if you tried." Dorothea answers: "Your words open an old wound. You see, I have my troubles, too." But thereafter...