Word: sixteener
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...swim. I think I've read all the first books written by Hemingway, Wolfe, Faulkner, Dreiser, and Wylie." No one influenced his style, however. Like Topsy, it just growed. "I don't know how I got it, I just can't write any other way now. When I was sixteen, I started experimenting with words. Then I got a job on the Atlanta Journal, police reporter. It taught me to write something every day, and now I put in a nine-to-five day, except when I'm travelling." Caldwell tries to get out a book a year...
...large initiation fee of $100--waived if a student is elected who cannot afford to pay it. These dues, however, tend to exclude potential members who cannot afford the luxury of such a Society. The famous "Pudding clause", barring Pudding members from the Society, was dropped sixteen years after the Signet was formed...
...blueprinted, the plan calls for at least ten subs, and perhaps 20, stationed at points in the Atlantic, Arctic, Pacific and Indian Oceans, the Mediterranean Sea and the Persian Gulf. Without surfacing, a sub crew could launch sixteen 28,500-lb. missiles up through the water and into the sky within 15 minutes. And moments after launching, the sub could be well on its escape route, beyond any known Russian sub-finding capability. With the minimum ten subs on station, the U.S. Navy would be sitting within striking distance of 95% of the more populated Communist cities...
Seven-thirty that Saturday evening and the entire class, bathed, brushed, shined, combed, and shivering, hurries through the dark night and biting wind across the campus to Prospect Street, where the grounds of sixteen plush clubhouses--and the not-so-plush Prospect Cooperative Club--stretch before them. The luckiest ones have received several bids, and join one of the big five...
...here sitting a couple of silent boys with slanted eyes and yellow skin, from here the man who was academically first in the class leaving in discouragement to join Prospect, and here, recurring nearly two times out of every three, Israel's immemorial face is seen; the class has sixteen Merit Scholars, ten were in trouble on Thursday night, and five of them, too, are here...