Word: sixteen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...women, had dreamed vast dreams which he executed with the help of usurious European bankers. They supplied the cash at interest rates ranging up to 40%. He built 9,000 miles of canals, 4,500 schools, and completed the Suez Canal; he also indulged his harem on Paris gowns. Sixteen years after Ismail began his gilded reign, his treasury was empty and his palace besieged by foreign creditors. Ismail abdicated and retired into exile (where he died, characteristically, of trying to gulp down two bottles of champagne at one draught). His Moslem subjects began killing Europeans. The British bombarded Alexandria...
...rookie Leo Kiely allowed only one man to reach base. Howie Judson of Chicago was less successful, and a series of walks and singles produced three runs for the home club with no outs. Our neighbor leaned over to speak to a man smoking a cigar. "One hundred to sixteen," he said. "That's what they think of the Red Sox in this ball park...
...Price is one hundred to sixteen with a rookie pitching!" he replied. "That's all the gamblers in there," he explained, pointing to his left...
Oldtimers in the ceremonial guard (currently six officers, 113 men) were in open resentment of the fact that the rival Papal Gendarmes get higher wages. Sixteen new recruits (who must be Roman Catholic Swiss, 19 to 25 when they enter the corps, may not marry until they leave it or become officers) wasted no time arguing. They packed up for Switzerland...
...rest of the property was not returned until after Mr. Hancock's death sixteen years later...