Word: sixteen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There were about a dozen girls of various sixes and shapes milling around the elevator in the Sheraton-Plaza. They all looked as if they were poured from the same mold at the same time about sixteen years ago--and they all wore variations on a formless fur-collared coat...
Willie Farrell was not the only union man to incur the displeasure of his fellow workers. Sixteen members of the confederation of Shipbuilding and Engineering Unions who, for one reason or another, had refused to observe a nationwide one-day "token strike" were sentenced to social ostracism in their own plants. At Derbyshire's Staveley Iron Works, Worker Ron Hewitt was forced to take his meals alone. For the next six months, Ron's 300 co-workers will not even give him a "good morning" when he comes to work. Their only communication with him during his five...
...drastic laws against industrial strikes, stood at their machines, silent and unbudging. Escorted by armed guards, Don Elisardo strode among the workers, cursing and threatening. Silently they stared back at him, and would not work. Three truckloads of guardsmen drew up and drove the workmen from the plant. Sixteen of them were bundled into a Black Maria...
...holders of the Adjunct of Arts degree have been awarded sixteen Master of Arts degrees, eleven Masters of Education, one Bachelor of Sacred Theology, and five Doctors of Philosophy. Looking over this impressive list of what were once part time scholars. Dean Pheips modestly states, "it would seem, there fore, that the Extension courses and the degree for which they count are each year fulfilling the educational purpose for which they were originally established...
...same formula, with constantly changing imagery, has made Crimson squash coach Jack Barnaby the most successful man in his trade. Intercollegiate and national amateur honors have been heaped upon his teams almost yearly during his sixteen seasons as head coach. None of his teams have ever finished lower than third in the intercollegiate field, and his players have won more individual intercollegiate championships than all other college players combined...