Bosch, how many sixty-five-year-old junkies do you see around?. From Wordnik.com. [The Black Echo]
"Arresting a sixty-five-year-old man isn't my idea of saving his life, " she huffed. From Wordnik.com. [Salem Falls]
Or how many sixty-five-year-old African-American men have survived prostate cancer in Florida. From Wordnik.com. [The Autoimmune Epidemic] Reference
Feeney was a ruddy-faced, heavyset sixty-five-year-old, with eyebrows as furry as caterpillars. From Wordnik.com. [Courting Trouble]
"No entiendo," Adelina said, thinking that she must be the only sixty-five-year-old señorita in all of Mexico. From Wordnik.com. [Pancho Villa's Granddaughter] Reference
“The average sixty-five-year-old person is about one-fiftieth as likely to be arrested as the average teenager.”. From Wordnik.com. [Why Aren’t There More Old Criminals? - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com] Reference
The remaining two members were civilians, the elder of whom was a long-bearded sixty-five-year-old professor named Maximilian T. From Wordnik.com. [Seven Deadly Wonders] Reference
Veterans like the sixty-five-year-old artist Thomas Moran returned to the Grand Canyon to scout suitable epic locations for paintings. From Wordnik.com. [Zane Grey, Romancing the West]
But mostly what you see in Atlantic City is sixty-five-year-old women wearing polyester warm-up suits, toting buckets of quarters, heading for the poker machines. From Wordnik.com. [Four To Score]
Well, Rae almost vehicular-manslaughtered her best friend, and I briefly had a sixty-five-year-old roommate, but now have temporarily moved back in with my parents. From Wordnik.com. [Curse of the Spellmans] Reference
It took a sixty-five-year-old guy who had lived most of his life not knowing anything about Travelers or Halla or guiding spirits to put it into such clear perspective. From Wordnik.com. [The Soldiers of Halla] Reference
Summary: Nan Powell is a free-spirited, sixty-five-year-old widow who's not above skinny-dipping in her neighbors' pools when they're away and who dearly loves her Nantucket home. From Wordnik.com. [Review: The Beach House] Reference
In March 2008, the sixty-five-year-old Mak was sentenced to twenty-four years and five months in prison after being found guilty of trying to provide China with U.S. Navy technology. From Wordnik.com. [The Shadow Market] Reference
The eccentric sixty-five-year-old, who has allegedly brandished firearms at women — and is rumored to have pulled guns on clients including Lennon, the Ramones, and Stevie Wonder — could spend life in prison. From Wordnik.com. [Calendar] Reference
The spry sixty-five-year-old woman had married at age fourteen, produced eight offspring-all girls-but after her youngest had married and moved away and her third husband had passed on, she converted her six-bedroom home to a boarding facility. From Wordnik.com. [Come The Spring]
The spry sixty-five-year-old woman had married at age fourteen, produced eight offspring—all girls—but after her youngest had married and moved away and her third husband had passed on, she converted her six-bedroom home to a boarding facility. From Wordnik.com. [Come the Spring] Reference
He was amazingly fit for a sixty-five-year-old man; he looked as if he'd been getting lots of regular exercise and watching his diet-his build was a lot like Jacques Cousteau's, in fact, who at sixty-five had still been leading his own underwater expeditions. From Wordnik.com. [Born To Run]
I felt sorry that I had put the question, for I got a proud "No, sir," followed by some tears from the sixty-five-year-old "girl.". From Wordnik.com. [London's Underworld] Reference
In January, the sixty-five-year-old reporter-who flew to the 1997 Kyoto Protocol negotiations with Al Gore aboard Air Force Two-took his retirement. From Wordnik.com. [CJR] Reference
"My child," she said to me, while her sixty-five-year-old bachelor-son stood by and adjusted her white lace cap: "I suppose you know that your great, great, great, great-grandfather was. From Wordnik.com. [A slaveholder's daughter,] Reference
And the phone number belonged to Lyle Burke, a sixty-five-year-old retired electrician, living in Savannah, who’d never heard of the two girls, let alone Roxie’s Bar, which was where they were last seen alive.”. From Wordnik.com. [The Killing Hour]
That’s because the men who made Some Kind of Monster (directors Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky) and its on-screen psychologist (a sweater-clad sixty-five-year-old named Phil Towle) seemed to need therapy as much as Metallica. From Wordnik.com. [Chuck Klosterman on Rock] Reference
In 1982 the Congressional Research Service estimated that a sixty-five-year-old worker who filed for pension benefits that year and who had contributed the maximum taxes since 1937 would get his contribution back in only seventeen months.). From Wordnik.com. [Justice Between Generations] Reference
“The average physical work capacity of a sixty-five-year-old is about half that of a twenty-five-year-old worker,” concluded a team of Canadian researchers in a review of dozens of recent studies on workers’ physical abilities over time. From Wordnik.com. [Shock of Gray] Reference
A razor-thin sixty-five-year-old woman entered. From Wordnik.com. [One Flight Up] Reference
Tonight's candidate was a sixty-five-year-old male. From Wordnik.com. [The Other Daughter]
His sixty-five-year-old father also had to be protected. From Wordnik.com. [The Mob and Me] Reference
A sixty-five-year-old man shacking up with a, what, twenty-year-old girl, a staggeringly beautiful twenty-year-old girl. From Wordnik.com. [Fire and Ice]
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