Word: sixteener
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These are not exceptional cases, individuals rising "above" their class as they would be in the U. S. Literally everyone in Cuba studies. At the in adjuration of a new own in the countryside we met a peasant woman and her daughter, a sixteen-year-old chemistry teacher. The older people study too-workers who were illiterate before the Revolution reach sixth grade or even secondary school graduate level through adult education...
...were reminded that all the work being done was voluntary, and the workers' enthusiasm as they spoke to us and the higher production achieved that day confirmed the fact. Later in our trip we traveled to Camegucy, 600 miles east of Havana, and met sixteen-year-old girls who were planting coffee and picking fruit ten hours a day and continuing their education at night. They often volunteer to work extra hours, they told us, so that more people can be free to work in the sugar harvest...
After running down this schedule, the sixteen-year-old Cuban I was talking with insisted that the brigade could work harder and longer, but that they'd only been together for a little over a month and so were taking it easy for a while. He had a pretty accurate idea of what was going on in the U.S. politically and told me that both of us were fighting in the same war against American imperialism, only the locations of the fronts was different, he said...
...Sixty make sense to Sixteen-Plus...
...SIXTEEN people are sitting around a large circular table. A few private conversations have begun and ended. The sixteen are now sitting silently, looking at each other...