Twenty Two

In 1967 twenty-two states, plus Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia, had banned housing discrimination. ❋ Walter F. Mondale (2010)

The plastic chairs lining the perimeter of the musty, airless room eventually fill as twenty-two girls and their two facilitators, one of whom is Elena Martínez, the parish receptionist, wander in. ❋ Robert D. Putnam (2010)

Testifying before a congressional committee in 1916 on the moral content of his films, Laemmle reported that he had sent a survey to twenty-two thousand theater owners titled “What Do You Want?” ❋ Thaddeus Russell (2010)

Within weeks attorneys general from twenty-two states had signed on, and we submitted our brief to the U.S. Supreme Court. ❋ Walter F. Mondale (2010)

At this point I had written twenty-two hefty checks to the James Gang, and others to Harry Teague. ❋ Annie Proulx (2011)

I worked for the same company for twenty-two years until I was laid off last year. ❋ Peter Walsh (2011)

Coming out of the club one evening in the early 1950s I was surprised to find myself surrounded by a bevy of very attractive . . . older women, about twenty or twenty-two years old. ❋ Unknown (2011)

A few days later, the Swiss learned that the Thais had retrieved a computer containing twenty-two thousand files, which they copied onto a CD and sent to Switzerland. ❋ Catherine Collins (2011)

And in 1979, when he was twenty-two, bin Laden himself traveled to the United States with his wife Najwa and their two infant sons. ❋ Peter L. Bergen (2011)

What was remarkable was that he started out as a colonel in command at the age of twenty-two. ❋ David A. Clary (2011)

Bobby was now twenty-two and on his second tour inAfghanistan. ❋ Martin Dodd (2011)

Battle Royale The Novel, a new edition with revised text, a new introduction by Max Allan Collins, an interview with filmmaker Kinji Fukasaku, and a twenty-two page afterword by author Koushun Takami. ❋ Unknown (2009)