Word: sixteener
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Students claw at their carrel-tops and calculate ("If I read 800 words a minute, sixteen hours a day. I will finish the reading by August 20th. But if I read 800 words a minute for seventeen hours a ..."). Could fact asserts itself through sleep-drugged minds ("Gazelles cannot actually leap; they are merely very poor flyers"), until fact and fancy no longer collide but merge like an icy cancer spreading over a Roast Beef Special ("If the Atlantic rose and drowned all the gazettes there might not be any Harry Levin...
...Sixteen Harvard professors, including John Womack Jr. Bliss Professor of Latin American History, were among the academic from the United States and Canada who endorsed the protest...
...Stack-Up," though not as intense an experience as "Treading," is certainly not anti-climactic. Choreographed to music by Earth, Wind and Fire. Two Tons of Fun, Fearless Four, Alphonze Mouson and Grover Washington Jr., this jazzy piece features an ensemble of sixteen dancers discoing their hips to flashy music in flashy colors. Different gangs are quartered off--the punks, the sleazies, and the cools. The dancing here is the main event; the groups are unified internally, and the dancers shift styles with ease as the music alternates between disco and saxophone-blues. Throughout the shifts, there is a constant...
...Court based its decision not only on the federal Constitution but also on the state's constitutional guarantee against selfincrimination. Even so, says South Dakota Attorney General Mark Meierhenry, "looking at the war on drunken drivers nationally, we won an important victory. This law does aid in prosecution." Sixteen states have "refusal-as-evidence" laws like South Dakota's. So does the District of Columbia, which reports that the law has cut by half the number of drivers who decline to take the test...
Indeed, as an athlete, Phills regards himself as something other than a hulking specimen of brute force. Drafted by a junior professional hockey team in Canada when he was sixteen, a former high school football star, a competition-class water skier and a three-year member of Harvard's rugby team, Phills qualifies and an all-around athlete...