Word: sixteen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mother, at first an obedient 1950s wife who does not question bringing salvation to the heathens, struggles with remorse in her musings years later: "You'll say I walked across Africa with my wrists unshackled, and now I am one more soul walking free in a white skin." Sixteen-year-old Rachel, a teen queen who yearns for pop music and beauty aids, squawks, "Jeez oh man, wake me up when it's over." Ruth May, who is six and fearless, plays mother-may-I? with the village kids...
...three-day regatta hosted sixteen of the top sailors from around the nation--and only three freshmen--all of whom had to qualify in district regattas to attend. Gill's second-place finish at the New England Women's Single Handed two weeks ago earned her a ticket to this memorable weekend...
...golf team struggled in its first tournament of the year, The Dartmouth Invitational, in Hanover, NH. Harvard finished tenth in the sixteen-team field, well behind champion Rhode Island and most of its Ivy League rivals...
Power tends to play a large role in determining attractions. Hey, even Kissinger pointed out that power is the greatest aphrodisiac. To a sixteen year-old, captain of the football team may represent pure power. That doesn't mean she can't giggle coyly and use womanly wiles to wrap him around her little finger. Is Monica guilty of such giggles? Maybe, though perhaps in this case giggles have translated into rapt interest into how the country is run. Regardless, power plays a role, and unequal allotments of traditional power don't always imply wrongdoings...
...Schroder's integrity or fitness for office, it may seem impressive that he could win by as wide a margin as he did--except for the fact that the new chancellor's necessary and sufficient selling point in Sunday's election was that he is not Helmut Kohl. Sixteen years is double the length of time any American president is allowed to serve (unless his predecessor resigns, of course) and was long enough to make people question whether or not democracy was still kicking in Germany...