Word: sixteenths
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...Jack Nicklaus, the concentration of Bobby Fischer and the eye of Minnesota Fats. Ricocheting at precisely the right spot off the steel wicket is one way to get the grapefruit-size ball through the narrow hoop, anchored an unforgiving 9 in. into the ground with a clearance of one-sixteenth of an inch. A bewildering array of possible shots -- the simple roquet (a straightforward hit), the croquet (a split shot) and others, like the bisque, the take-off, pass roll, cut rush and cannon, that are too intricate to describe -- must be calculated a dozen moves in advance...
...most charming works in the collection, titled "Heavenly and Earthly Drunkeness," comes from a sixteenth century manuscript. It portrays a house of drunken revelers, some of whom have passed out in the garden. The rest merrily sing and dance inside and outside the house, which is shown in cross-section. The gods look down on all these festivities, smiling approvingly and passing around a few goblets of their...
Harvard consumes roughly one sixteenth of the city's total water consumption...