Word: sixteens
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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...
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...
...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...
...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...
...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...