Word: sixteener
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...colonial golgotha. "God will destroy all government chiefs," intoned the prophet defiantly. "Airplanes will fall to earth, and police bullets turn to water." Thus encouraged, the prophet's trusting admirers charged the cops, brandishing long knives. But not one of the bullets that met them turned to water. Sixteen Kikuyu fell dead, 17 were wounded; the prophet was jailed, and has not said a word since...
...Sixteen members of the senior class will be initiated into Phi Beta Kappa tonight in the Junior Commons Room of Kirkland at the annual dinner meeting of the society...
Nine Lowell House members were among the 16 seniors elected to Phi Beta Kappa over the weekend. Two each were elected from Kirkland and Eliot, while Dunster and Winthrop failed to place a single member in the "senior sixteen...
...ambitious young nobleman, headed for studies and pleasure at the University of Paris. He was 23, a tutor and a convivial man about town, when he met his fellow Basque, Ignatius Loyola, who was to be the founder of the Society of Jesus. After that, his life changed. Sixteen years later, a priest and a single-minded evangelist, he left Lisbon on a Portuguese carrack to found the Jesuit missions in Asia. He never returned to Europe...
...best performed part of the program was Schumann's Kreisleriana. Technique and interpretation were absolutely beyond reproach. But it is difficult to understand why he devoted so many hours of practice to such an undistinguished piece of music. Kreisleriana is dull and repetitions. And Lewin scrupulously palyed all sixteen of the indicated repeats. If he has some special love for this piece, he might at least have shorn it of it superfluities...