Word: sixteener
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...Sixteen hours of anger, sorrow and laughter filled eight microcassettes, each smaller than a bar of motel soap. Humphreys transcribed them, suggested a . few cuts and additions, and sent nearly 300 pages north to Manhattan, where her agent, Harriet Wasserman, read the manuscript in a few hours and sold it in a matter of days. "What language! What imagery!" says Wasserman, who certainly should know. She also represents Saul Bellow...
While ninth place may sound low (the regatta had sixteen schools) the Crimson was not far off pace. Only 30 points separated Harvard from the fourth-place finish it needed, while in contrast, the tenth-place team was 50 points behind the Crimson...
...Sixteen delegates would have been shaved offnext year's council if the measure had beenapproved...
November 1969--Students arrange sit-in at the office of the Dean of the College Ernest R. May. Sixteen students are ultimately expelled for their participation...
...Benson's voice, as the sweet, naive Thumbelina, is clear, pleasant, and familiar--as well it should be, having first buoyed the equally sweet and naive Ariel of "The Little Mermaid." Her voice brings life to Thumbelina's giggling, almost Barbie-like appearance, though her partner Prince Cornelius, a sixteen year old adventurer with a haircut somewhere between a crew cut and a bowl cut, has a voice that seems a little forced in comparison...