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Word: sixteens (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Before the freshman race, McCurdy advised his runners, "When in doubt, sprint." All seven of them, as if connected by a rope, dashed to the finish line within sixteen seconds of each other...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harriers Win Boston Title For Second Straight Year | 11/3/1965 | See Source »

Half of the sixteen students whose suites were most heavily damaged in yesterday's Quincy House fire will be able to return to their bedrooms by tomorrow. Four others will be able to move back this week; but the four who lived in 601 and Mr. and Mrs. John F. Naylor, who lived in 600, won't be able to return until after Christmas...

Author: By Jonathan B. Marks, | Title: Half of Quincy House Fire Victims Will Go Back to Rooms Tomorrow | 11/2/1965 | See Source »

...Sixteen Stabs. Yet, to true aficionados of the world's only blood art, El Cordobés is the death of the afternoon. "He's like Chubby Checker playing Bach," sniffs one ardent detractor. "It's pop bullfighting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spain: Death of the Afternoon | 9/24/1965 | See Source »

...illuminate the jungle fronds. When guerrillas probe the perimeter wire, alarm gongs bang, trumpets sound and tin cans tied to the endless concentric coils of barbed wire rattle. By day life goes on. In the French seminary, 50 sandal-clad Vietnamese and French priests keep to their prayer schedules. Sixteen American Protestant scholars continue compiling alphabets and grammars for some 48 Montagnard tribal languages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Viet Nam: Battle for the Hills | 7/30/1965 | See Source »

...port of Guayaquil, thousands of high school and university students, representing a wide swath of political orientation, poured into downtown streets, slinging rocks and chanting "Abajo la dictadura!" and "Viva la constitución!" Army troops and marines moved in with tear gas and clubs, arresting scores of demonstrators. Sixteen political leaders were rounded up and deported, and in Guayaquil, where two high school students were killed by stray bullets, the junta declared martial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ecuador: Impatience with the Brass | 7/23/1965 | See Source »

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