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  • GONYEA: Paint Creek, like other tiny rural schools, play the game called six-man football.

    NPR Topics: News 2011

  • Adding to the drama was the uncertain fate of the six-man OSS team dispatched to Mukden in Manchuria to rescue General “Skinny” Wainwright, who along with his men had endured more than three years of brutal captivity since the surrender at Corregidor in May 1942.

    A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011

  • On July 31, 1997, a six-man Emergency Service team raided a Brooklyn apartment, whose inhabitants were just hours away from entering the Atlantic Avenue subway station and detonating bombs during the morning rush hour.

    Len Levitt: Ray Kelly: Harvard Club Freeloader Len Levitt 2010

  • As part of Endeavour's planned 16-day mission to the International Space Station, the six-man crew will deliver a $2 billion particle physics detector and conduct four space walks—the final ones of the shuttle program.

    NASA Sets Shuttle Launch Arian Campo-Flores 2011

  • On July 31, 1997, a six-man Emergency Service team raided a Brooklyn apartment, whose inhabitants were just hours away from entering the Atlantic Avenue subway station and detonating bombs during the morning rush hour.

    Len Levitt: Ray Kelly: Harvard Club Freeloader Len Levitt 2010

  • The team named Argentinean Ignacio Pereyra to head its six-man roster for the 11-day UCI 2.2 event.

    Pereyra to lead Jamis past Borrajo’s death in Chile 2011

  • Kelly had rushed to Giffords' rehabilitation center after a public celebration that lasted more than an hour for the six-man Endeavour crew's return home to Houston.

    Kelly, Giffords reunite, hold hands for 2 hours 2011

  • Adding to the drama was the uncertain fate of the six-man OSS team dispatched to Mukden in Manchuria to rescue General “Skinny” Wainwright, who along with his men had endured more than three years of brutal captivity since the surrender at Corregidor in May 1942.

    A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011

  • You may think them charming foreign visitors supporting an unseeded outsider called YUMRAR but be warned – they are capable of switching seats and launching into ill-timed immensely irritating six-man Mexican waves.

    Wimbledon 2011: Your survival guide to SW19 2011

  • On July 31, 1997, a six-man Emergency Service team raided a Brooklyn apartment, whose inhabitants were just hours away from entering the Atlantic Avenue subway station and detonating bombs during the morning rush hour.

    Len Levitt: Ray Kelly: Harvard Club Freeloader Len Levitt 2010

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