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By the end of the day, sixtysix thousand people would be dead and another sixtynine thousand wounded.
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Finally, an hour behind schedule, two motorcades and a 1,500-mile plane trip from home, it seemed it was the sixtynine-year-old presidential candidate's turn to speak.
Prime Time Preachers: The Rising Power of Televangelism; with an Introduction by T George Harris 1981
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At Sharpeville, a small village, in a single afternoon sixtynine people were shot dead and 180 wounded by small arms fire3; and in parts like the Transkei4, a state of emergency is still continuing.
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But the risk of unchecked escalation led Kennedy to deploy instead the negotiating skills of a former ambassador to Moscow, sixtynine-year-old Averell Harriman, to keep Laos neutral in the Cold War.
AmericanHeritage.com 2009
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didja know you got da sixtynine? shox, pegs, luckeee
Veloship of the Chainrings: Riding on Water BikeSnobNYC 2009
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