Word: sixteener
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...Sixteen years ago, John F. (for Francis, not Fitzgerald) Kennedy, a former employee of a Boston stockroom, followed a similarly named Senator into Massachusetts politics. The lesser J.F.K. parlayed his name into election as state treasurer. This year a Cleveland businessman who also happens to be John F. (for Francis) Kennedy is running for Ohio secretary of state. Others have potent patronymics supported by heritage. Adlai Stevenson III, Illinois state treasurer, is after a U.S. Senate seat. Robert Taft Jr. wants to represent Ohio in the Senate...
...sixteen and seventeen
During the "gat" phase when the raga is set to a sixteen-beat rhythmic time cycle, and during the speeding climax of the "thala," there appears to be a heightened intensification-rather than a confusion-of the raga's mood, as Mirza and Khan seem to mysteriously coalesce in a musical vision of sheer symmetry...
...individual championships, Harvard captain Larry Terrell lost to former Harvard star Charlie Ufford '53 in the round of sixteen...
LIKE SO MANY of his other actions during his first sixteen years at Harvard. President Pusey's resignation announcement will do little to cheer those who are seriously angry at this school. The soft spots in the gesture are obvious, waiting for the cynical poke: June of 1974 is, after all, still a long time off, and it is hard to know what Pusey will do between now and then. From a stylistic point of view. Pusey managed to conduct the whole affair without leaving the slightest trace of a mental truce between the forces who have opposed...