Word: half-dozen
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Ronald Reagan's election is not the biggest source of despair--rather it is the confluence of the size of his victory, the triumph of other conservatives (especially a half-dozen Bible-believing absolutist senators), and the apparently terminal case of tax fever that felled even the residents of Massachusetts. And the results of last week's elections are not, by themselves, the heralds of Armageddon. Instead, they are proofs--compass checks--of trends a few years older. They demonstrate that the car has gone over the top of the roller coaster, that the nation is shrieking and waving...
...ranking organizational official reminds them, "Now, now, girls, we only have a half-dozen point lead in the polls...
...generations, that has been the gentlemanly tradition. Despite their sometimes fiery fights in the House, the leaders of the two parties-the top half-dozen men in the House on both sides of the aisle-have not tried to unseat each other. The idea of doing so still shocks some oldtimers. When House Republican Leader John Rhodes of Arizona, who has served 14 terms, was asked if he would campaign this year against Speaker Tip O'Neill, he replied, "There's no way I'd be against Tip. I don't agree with...
Iraq radio reported yesterday that MIGs raided Tehran's international airport and at least a half-dozen other Iranian air installations, while Iran claimed it had launched successful retaliatory attacks on two Iraqi air bases. But William A. Graham, associate professor of Islamic Religion, warned that the reports might be exaggerated because each side "wanted to show the other as a warmongerer...
...block traffic for about an hour until police decide they've watched long enough. A cooperative motorist follows a vanguard of cops as they push and club through the crowd. What the officers start the driver finishes, driving through the last clump of blockaders at 15 mph with a half-dozen screaming protesters clinging to his hood...