Word: sixteen
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...have to be in the mood for it" might be one caveat for the show. But a more appropriate one would be "You have to be below sixteen or above thirty-five, come from a strict up-bringing and not be going to college." We can easily visualize matronly ladies who come paying high theater prices expecting to see a play, who are shocked and involuntarily titillated by the uninhibited use of words they have only read in print and even then disguised by asterisks. But for a generation of college students nurtured on National Lampoon, Lenny Bruce and Cheech...
...Sixteen East Coast colleges competed in the tournament, which consisted of three flights in both singles and doubles...
...news for the weather bureau," Coach Bill McCurdy said yesterday, "a hurricane struck in a localized area." Apparently, it only affected those who wore Crimson jerseys, for of the first seventeen runners to cross the finish line, sixteen were either Friars or Minutemen...
...Sixteen years ago, John Owen received his first intimation that the factory workers regarded him as someone apart. "After leaving school, I spent nine months here in apprentice training as a welder. I was 19 then, and when I was on the shop floor, I was conscious from time to time that everyone would disappear, and I would almost think that it was the end of the world and I was the only one left. They were just having a meeting, and someone was shouting and that was the beginning of the union. I didn't know what...
...Sixteen Governors trooped into the White House last week to discuss another energy problem area-this time natural gas. Confirming their worst fears, the President presented the latest Federal Energy Administration forecasts. They predict severe gas shortages beginning in November, notably in Ohio, West Virginia, Kentucky and the skein of Mid-Atlantic states stretching from New York to South Carolina. The most vulnerable state is North Carolina, whose pipeline company has only limited supplies of natural gas, which is essential in textile processing. Said Governor James Holshouser: "If we have an average winter, we will be able to meet only...