Word: sixteener
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...self-preservation as anything else. Yang gave the little bit extra that put him over. Yang remeasured the crossbar. "Parry O'Brien was practicing the shot-put, and he called over, 'What was the height? About fifteen and a half?' When I told him 'Sixteen two,' he said, 'Wow! You were over that bar by six or seven inches...
...Sick and sixteen, the heroine is the daughter of a U.S. officer who puts her up at a fancy French academy while he assiduously golfs to keep himself in SHAPE. Flirty and thirty, the hero is a sculptor who sponges off a rich woman (Françoise Prévost)-and takes her money too. One day the girl jumps the wall that divides her school from his house, and introduces herself. She needs a man, she world-wearily explains to him. "from time to time." He needs a change of sheets to help him sleep better-he has nightmares...
...long association with maritime and colonial enterprises, has always occupied a respected place in scholarship. In addition to geography chairs in the major universities, there is the Hakluyt Society, which publishes the narratives of famous explorers and adventurers. Raleigh A. Skelton has been secretary of the Society for sixteen years; and to support his infectious belief in the romance of maps he might quote the Society motto...
When Richard Nixon assaulted the reporters last week, his cries brought down around him the walls he had been building for sixteen years. So thoroughly did he demolish his castle that ABC Television News--which, after all, is now run by James Haggerty--could title its post-election study of the former Vice-President, former Senator, former everything, "The Political Obituary of Richard M. Nixon...
...never altogether sure. The longer Nixon was in public life, the less one knew him. The very character of Nixon's discourse last Wednesday stamped him forever as washed-up; in those fifteen minutes he at last exhausted himself, confronted and killed the demon that kept him going for sixteen years. It is not that Nixon is dead; it is that he could no longer conceivably be of interest or use to anybody...