Between 1900 and 1940, more Jews won boxing world championships—twenty-six—than Irish, Italian, German, or African American fighters. ❋ Thaddeus Russell (2010)
Nineteen of the twenty-six defendants 73 percent on federal death row under active death sentences are nonwhite, and all but one are black. ❋ Erwin Chemerinsky (2010)
Hoover had designated twenty-six thousand individuals to be arrested and jailed in any national emergency, including Martin Luther King Jr. and Norman Mailer. ❋ Walter F. Mondale (2010)
Alarmed by what appeared to be a great number of East Germans crossing the border daily this was before the building of the Berlin Wall, officers of the GDR conducted a study in 1956 and 1957 and found that each day, on average, some twenty-six thousand East Berlin youths attended movies and dances at the West Berlin “border theaters.” ❋ Thaddeus Russell (2010)
This was twenty-six years before Margaret Sanger more famously opened her first birth control clinic. ❋ Thaddeus Russell (2010)
In the twenty-six years since I planted that particular landmine, however, I have learned how to recognize some of those unrealistic expectations and how to prevent them from becoming time bombs. ❋ Unknown (2010)
This blunder killed one officer and thirteen enlisted men and wounded twenty-six. ❋ David A. Clary (2011)
A watchdog group called Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington sent a letter to the House Ethics Office protesting the free ride that thirty-three of its members, twenty-six Republicans and seven Democrats, are receiving by turning their offices into dorm rooms. ❋ Brian Ross (2011)
But as Doyne was gathering evidence at the scene of the bombing, a second and then a third bomb detonated, and at the age of twenty-six he lost both his left arm and left eye. ❋ Peter L. Bergen (2011)
Remind me again of the secular countries where senior religious figures are shot twenty-six times by one of their avowedly secular bodyguards and the secular population lauds the killer as a hero and showers them with rose petals ? ❋ Unknown (2011)
But in practice, of the twenty-six countries that made up the alliance, few would do any real fighting. ❋ Peter L. Bergen (2011)
Ile de France = Paris and its surrounding suburbs; one of the twenty-six administrative regions of France, composed mostly of the Paris metropolitan area. ❋ Unknown (2010)
“Fifteen unicorns, twelve griffons, twenty-six phoenixes, and five dragons,” Mountain answered promptly. ❋ Linda Robertson (2011)
Awdah was also one of twenty-six Saudi clerics who in 2004 handed down a religious ruling urging Iraqis to fight the U.S. occupation. ❋ Peter L. Bergen (2011)
An Italian prosecutor launched a probe of the kidnapping in 2003, resulting in the indictment of twenty-six Americans, almost all of them suspected CIA officials, and the case generated thousands of documents about the secretive rendition program that detailed how it actually worked. ❋ Peter L. Bergen (2011)
His son is eighteen and his daughter is twenty-six, five years younger than me. ❋ Mira Bartók (2011)
That night, the Washington Post said we gave “the most impassioned performance of the night,” and it was mind-blowing to think that we killed it in a broadcast to twenty-six million people around the world. ❋ Steve Dennis (2011)
My friend just turned twenty-six and [realized] that she has [nothing to show] for it, [not even] a car. ❋ Djprincessx (2008)
kek: i just searched [up five] hundred [twenty-five] thousand six hundred minutes on urban dictionary!
[ket]: get a life ❋ Katehasisses (2023)