Word: half-dozen
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...truly serving the pleasure of the body politic, or at least fifty percent of it. It seems that while Sheen might be a mild-mannered campus bureaucrat by day, he is indeed a promising leader of the student body by night, at least according to the half-dozen unsolicited appraisals of Sheen’s bed time performances that Gossip Guy has received from the highly satisfied women of Harvard, who are ever mindful of the power of positive reinforcement. How does he find the time to brush up on his tantra amidst his busy schedule...
Though the event was attended by only a half-dozen people, those present were unfazed by the low turnout and still fiery in their rhetoric...
...incidental and spontaneous entertainments in the Magic Kingdom, such as the trash can, are uniformly brilliant. You?re walking down Main Street and suddenly a horse-drawn trolley pauses and a half-dozen kids jump off and start dancing as a showtune plays. At the castle several times a day, Cinderella and friends act out a lively tableaux for the edification of those in the plaza below. The cumulative effect, over a couple of days, is to convince the children that they are in another country - on another planet - where, at any given moment, something extraordinary might happen. ?I want...
...German composer Gottfried Reiche?s ?Abblasen? (rendered for the first 25 years by Doc Severinsen, and now by Winton Marsalis) introduces Osgood standing at a 7-ft. sculpture on which are displayed the morning?s chapter headings - the table of contents for this magazine show. Osgood runs though the half-dozen main stories, then reads the news ?for today, February 15th, twenty-oh-four.? The show revels in mild eccentricities; some of the most prominent are Osgood?s bow tie, his occasional flights of doggerel and his persistent disdain for the locution ?two thousand four...
Most candidates paid little heed to yesterday’s primary, but Sharpton made a serious effort in the district. The Washington Post reported that Sharpton launched a media campaign last week, buying $50,000 in radio spots on a half-dozen Washington area stations...