Word: half-dozen
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...want to be a radio "ham," don't take it up while you're in college. Life for Harvard's half-dozen active amateur radio enthusiasts is a constant bout with inadequate antennae, insufficient power supplies, and unsympathetic neighbors. They operate as cautiously as spies behind the iron curtain and probably under just as many hardships...
There are 76 students at Stanford on Buck Club grant-in-aids. Of these, 24 are Varsity football players, and of these two dozen less than a half-dozen started against your ill-fated grid team. The other 52 men receiving help with their tuition are engaged in non-revenue producing sports such as tennis, swimming, baseball and basketball...
...characters insist upon talking in some sort of Biblical patois, a bastard St. James version of English, which succeeds only in producing considerable confusion and some ludicrous metaphors. In the fourth place, the acting is ridiculously wooden. Hedy Lamarr spends almost all of her waking hours draped on a half-dozen strategically placed divans or leaning against a tentpole, apparently the B.C. equivalent of a lamppost. And she rushes from divan to tentpole with such speed and determination that you begin to wonder whether old C. B. DeMille has lost his touch. In the fifth place, Victor Young's musical...
...critics have called lean-faced, Boston-born Jack Levine, 35, one of the half-dozen liveliest young painters in the U.S. Some of Levine's own words for himself are "romantic humanitarian," "editorial" artist, "social" artist. In a crowded Back Bay gallery last week, gallerygoers at Levine's first big show got a chance to see for themselves what all the words meant...
...bright spot in the varsity's play was its foul shooting. Bill Prior netted seven free throws; Dick Covey's half-dozen put him high in the national ranking for percentage of free shots completed. Gerry Murphy also stands high in this ranking...