Word: half-dozen
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When Billy Cleary talks about Harvard, it is with pride. On his desk sit a half-dozen or so vulcanized-rubber hockey pucks, each stamped in vibrant crimson with the Harvard seal...
What they have been playing is undermanned. After losing four lettermen to graduation, the twin assassins of injuries and academics have knocked off a half-dozen more, and what remains is a hybrid of good, healthy students and JV's. Even Flaman admits, "You can't play Division I hockey with...
...other Senate member, and too many to be efficient, as he later learned. Senators on both sides of the aisle have come to respect him as an able legislator, on the Senate floor and in its hearing rooms. Republican Majority Leader Howard Baker calls him "one of the half-dozen most effective people in the Senate." Many of his colleagues agree...
Says Wisconsin's Nelson: "Early on, he frequently wasn't prepared. He took on too many issues. That's not so the last half-dozen years. He works hard. He does his homework...
Most of Fabian's sex occurs inside his VanHome, a monstrous mobile house of a half-dozen rooms, among them a tack room, skylit bedroom, and stable for his horses. The VanHome and the strange sex that goes on inside it leap out as symbols of the way of life Kosinski's characters have always sought. The impregnable quality of the VanHome, its mobility and completeness, match the character of its driver. Like the sex in his bedroom, Fabian burns wildly passionate on the inside. But like the cool metal walls of the VanHome, his shell is unforgiving...