Word: sixteen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sixteen semi-final bouts will be held tonight at 7:30 p.m. in the I.A.B...
...almost sixteen," I said. "A man's age in Andalusia...
...will soon be sixteen," she said. "A woman's age in any land...
...Sixteen months ago, New York's Democratic Congressman Louis B. Heller began looking for skeletons in SEC's closet. Last week, after poring over 742 cases from SEC's files and calling 100 witnesses, Heller's subcommittee handed in its report. In general, it said, SEC had done "a commendable job." But in its rummaging, the committee rattled the bones of several controversial cases, said the incoming Congress should investigate further. Among the cases...
...colonial golgotha. "God will destroy all government chiefs," intoned the prophet defiantly. "Airplanes will fall to earth, and police bullets turn to water." Thus encouraged, the prophet's trusting admirers charged the cops, brandishing long knives. But not one of the bullets that met them turned to water. Sixteen Kikuyu fell dead, 17 were wounded; the prophet was jailed, and has not said a word since...