Word: sixteener
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...under way from Belfast, Ireland and set a westward course for her home base at New London, Conn. One of Harder's engines was out of commission with a cracked block when the voyage began. About 650 miles west of Belfast, the crankshaft on a second engine broke. Sixteen hours later, Harder's last engine was partially disabled, and what little power it could generate had to be used to charge the submarine's ebbing batteries. Last week, 16 days after her departure from Belfast, Harder finally came into New London, trailing ignominiously...
...Communist government announced that 84 carloads of hogs, 39 carloads of fish and nine carloads of butter were on the way to East Germany from Red Poland. But while this much conciliation continued, the Communist rulers began to talk a tough line, and demanded discipline in their own ranks. Sixteen East German workers, accused of rioting, were sentenced to long prison terms, and Soviet T-34 tanks were once again seen on the outskirts of East Berlin...
...siege of Boston introduced Washington to his awful responsibilities. Sixteen thousand Americans were camped in a great semicircle around Boston. They had, somehow, to be fed, disciplined, taught some rudiments of military maneuvering-and used against the enemy. Few had uniforms. Few had enough powder-in fact, Washington discovered there was hardly enough powder in the whole country to fight one battle...
...this week, the Kennedy family has special plans. Even though he has seen 25th Reunions come and go during his sixteen years of affiliation with the University, Kennedy is going to get to all the events he can. And on Thursday, he will watch his son, Frank, graduate from the College. But when the week is over, and his classmates have gone home for a long, quiet recuperation, Sargent Kennedy will probably be donning sneakers so he can get some real exercise...
...folly. Apparently, however, this simple truth has not yet percolated down to the silver miners and sheep herders, to the Wisconsin farmers, or to the others on whom the likes of McCarran depend. Eisenhower, can hardly wait the many years this will take, though, for revision is already sixteen months overdue. Rather than anger everyone further by ludicrous exceptions, he and his legislative captains should make an immediate effort for comprehensive revision...