Word: half-dozen
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...with South America are an example of how even the staunchest of friendships can die of neglect. Ever since the Rio de Janiero pact of 1947, American foreign policy strategists have been too engrossed in Europe and Asia to bother with the continent beneath them. As a result, a half-dozen anti-American rulers have moved into the erstwhile Good Neighborhood, and an active hate-America campaign is under...
When they are gone Ewell begins to think of the women he could have seduced in those seven years, and, with a halting bravado and a half-dozen scches depicting the tragic consequences of his folly, goes about seducing the girl who lives upstairs...
When the Crimson returned for the third quarter, it surged into the lead in just two minutes and six plays. Brian Reynolds took the kickoff and fought 30 yards to midfield. Clasby and John Ederer ripped off the next 50 yards and a touchdown in a half-dozen plays. This score was more an eruption than a sustained drive...
...typical workday consists of riding in planes, trains and motor caravans, with at least a half-dozen speaking stops. After the first week or so, says Darby, the correspondent settles down to his routine of two to six hours of sleep a night, but, he adds: "What really seems to hurt is a vacation. I had six days in late September and the first couple of days back on the job just about killed me." But Darby says he was O.K. as soon as he got run down again...
...always took a somewhat Olympian view of human affairs, refusing himself to engage in the struggle between opposing ideologies. He was, in my judgment, one of the half-dozen most distinguished thinkers of his day, and one who knew how to make literature out of philosophy...