Word: sixteens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Massachusetts is a prime example of this trend. Kennedy's overwhelming victory in his home state was not sufficient to carry Mayor O'Connor into office. Leverett Saltonstall, who has successfully served the local interests of Massachusetts for sixteen years, was once again returned to his seat in the Senate...
...Sixteen months ago, gun in hand, Fidel Castro came out of the Sierra Maestra range in eastern Cuba and liberated the island from dictatorship. Last week, gun in hand, Castro returned to the Sierra. This time he was the hunter...
...Sixteen months ago, when Red China's "great leap forward" seemed in danger of ending in an ignominious sprawl (TIME, Feb. 16, 1959 et seq.), Peking's planners decided that for the time being they would concentrate on forcing the nation's peasants into the hive life of the new "people's communes." "In the cities," explained the Central Committee of China's Communist Party, "bourgeois ideology is still fairly prevalent among many of the capitalists and intellectuals; they still have misgivings about the establishment of communes-so we should wait a bit for them...