Word: thirteeners
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...more days of school than he attended. As a ripening thug he shuttled between homes and detention centers and the safe houses maintained by his gang. The police arrested him again and again and again; but the most they could do under Illinois law was put him on probation. Thirteen local juvenile homes wouldn't take him because he was too young...
General Robert C. Davenport '44 joined the Enlisted Reserve Corps at Harvard in June 1942. Thirteen months later he went on active duty in the Army. In 1986, he retired with the rank of major general...
...thirteen years straight, something similar to the following conversation has taken place...
...those thirteen years of home runs, line drives and caught stealings the only time I missed the game was when I was a fifth grader on an extended school field trip to Groton, MA for nature exploration. In retrospect, I should have gone to the game...
After all, is there any other time when one could find thousands of college students putting down between nine and thirteen dollars apiece to see a regular reason hockey game...