Word: thirteeners
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...THIRTEEN HOURS. SIXTY-FOUR INVITEES. THREE-minute time limits. The gathering at a college basketball court in the capital was billed as the first formal meeting of the President's normally secretive health-care task force. A cynic might have dubbed it a grudging charade by an Administration that likes its participatory democracy in tiny slices. But none of the participants was cynic enough to turn down the access. Each spoke for three minutes and joined one of 12 panel chats with task-force members. (Hillary Rodham Clinton, their chief, was attending her father, who had suffered a stroke...
...follow simple verbal commands like "Sit." The problem, though, was getting her to remain still for several minutes at a time. She would squirm, twitch and monkey around with the photographic equipment. The crew used grapes, apples, carrots, raisins and even bananas as bribes to get Sally to cooperate. Thirteen hours later, Balog had all the pictures he needed...
...sure that I was not the only one to note that The Harvard Crimson missed yet another opportunity to practice some substantive journalism in the recent series featuring the thirteen houses of Harvard College. Judging from the fact that each college was treated with such circumspection and discretion, one might have guessed that they were written by a joint committee representing the admissions office and various masters' offices. A tired litany of "diversity" and "uniqueness" soon put any casual reader to sleep...
Cookies, cakes, candy and the ever-popular "chocolate orgasms" were available at the show, representing over thirteen area chocolatiers. An entrance fee of $12 purchased 10 tickets, good for 10 chocolate samples...
...Thirteen hours later, with daylight no more than a memory, he leaves for his nearby apartment and a few hours of much-needed rest...