Word: sixteen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...time in my life, feel old. I sat with a few greaser friends near the back of the crowd as we lamented the end of an era. They talked of the kids at the concert as I had heard people who were thirty talk about us when we were sixteen. But my friends and I are only twenty-two. I was feeling a generation gap with people only five years my junior...
...much as 33% of the total in cities like Philadelphia and Buffalo. This is a burden the public schools could not easily handle. President Nixon therefore publicly promised last year to find some constitutionally acceptable means of providing parochial-school aid (a promise yet to be fulfilled), and sixteen different states have devised their own systems for circumventing...
...Sixteen female residents of the Yard yesterday endorsed coeducational living there and said that it should be continued in the future...
Both crews rowed with well-drilled precision and pose through choppy waters, into a stiff quartering headwind, and successfully past a wandering sailor who drifted into the middle of the race course where he was nearly drawn and quartered by a sixteen-blade floating Veg-O-Matic...
...SIXTEEN months after East Pakistan, with the help of Indian military might, successfully won its war of independence from West Pakistan to form the nation of Bangladesh, political strife continues to plague the Asian subcontinent...