Word: sixteen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Communists were more successful in Hamburg, where 3,000 Reds managed to stage a noisy demonstration before they were stopped by police. Sixteen policemen were injured...
...which he can never be really a part... To get to know [even Englishmen] takes about a year." Worse than the loneliness is the treatment of cable news at home: "[The correspondent] looks for his piece. It should have been on page one. He finds it on page sixteen. It appears rather short. That is because they have simply left out the key paragraph . . . Their editorials make him wonder if they even read his stuff...
Onlookers plunged to their rescue. Sixteen youths who were playing bowls nearby leaped into the mass of choking children. Fisherman Bruno Pirollo pulled four little girls out, dived in again to search for his own Ivana. He did not find her. Don Moses Lionello dragged out two little girls, became hysterical. Maria Bessan had tightly hugged eleven-month-old Luigi during the fall, but had lost him struggling in the water...
...Sixteen years later the picture was reversed and Thompson was teaching Leonard Bernstein, Lucas Foss and others at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. He went to run the Curtis after teaching at Wellesley and California, several trips to Europe on Guggenheim fellowships, and a two year tour of thirty American colleges gathering music for a book, "College Music...
...Sixteen members of the United Nations Secretariat Council were introduced yesterday to the University's Seismographic station at Harvard, Massachusetts, where they are spending a four day weekend...