Word: sixteener
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...Sixteen years ago, Birendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev was a student at Harvard, where he lived in Quincy House, joined the Fox Club, and studied economics and American government...
...Sixteen teams will participate in the preliminary rounds. Those teams are currently being determined in world-wide competitions ending in April. During the first week of August, four teams will play in a round-robin tournament in each of the four stadiums...
...borders on the banal: "The White House is very white...You can scarcely believe that the place is inhabited. It is, because the White House is also a house." Although Manchester's book contains far more prose than the others, it relies as heavily on photographs--almost 200, with sixteen pages in color. As a result, each book seems an extension of television: the narration frames the images...
Meselson: I would use it to mean the alleged agent of toxic warfare in Southeast Asia. The test of a good definition is whether it applies consistently to something out in the real world. In this case there is such a test. It is this: There have been sixteen cases of which I'm aware where people have brought samples of something to embassy officials--the U.S. embassy, the Canadian embassy, the Australian embassy--or Thai government officials, United Nations officials, British officials. Every one, with no exception, turned out to be pollen, but people alleged that this...
...Sixteen hours a day, seven days a week, police officers will man an anticrime observation booth in Central Square, city officials announced yesterday...