Word: half-dozen
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...become temporary TV directors, to say nothing of those who are tempted to ham it up. "Judges are human beings also and are subject to the same psychological reactions as laymen. Telecasting is particularly bad where the judge is elected, as is the case in all save a half-dozen of our states...
...their pounding of targets to the north. Barracks and PT boats, radar stations and ammo dumps caught the brunt of the aerial assault, and the bomb-line boomed ever closer to Hanoi. U.S. planes struck within 45 miles of the North Vietnamese capital, as if to challenge the half-dozen Soviet Ilyushin-28 jet bombers discovered by high-flying U.S reconnaissance planes late last month and at present sitting idly at Phucyen, just northwest of Hanoi. U.S. officials assume that the planes are Russian-piloted and represent Moscow's fulfillment-along with three antiaircraft missile sites under construction near...
...half-dozen kinds of oral contraceptives already on the U.S. market, all of which work on essentially the same principle, yet another was added last week. This one, say the manufacturers, works differently...
...measured by the number of papers in which she appears (1,600). Rankings of comics are hazy, since syndicates disagree about one another's figures, but Peanuts ranks in the top half-dozen...
Intertwined throughout the story line are "a small yet deadly forerunner of the atomsmasher" in the form of a radium ray gun, the New Order's extremely reliable truth serum, and a half-dozen patriotic Americans who refused to work for Dacquar and therefore were turned into zombies, being thus "deprived of their ability to think...