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Sixty years later, it is fitting that we re-commit to the same lofty goal.
Mission Sustainable DevelopmentNEW YORK – Sixty years ago next May, President John F. Kennedy put the United States on a mission to the future.
'It seems he has won from Pevtsov all and even more than Pevtsov can pay – about sixty thousand roubles.''But why do you imagine,' said she, irritated at his intimating to her so obviously, by this change of subject, that he saw she was losing her temper, 'that this news interests me so much that it is necessary to conceal it?
He had not known him--a big fellow, it was said, very strong, who died of old age at sixty.
We owe sixty francs to Maigrat, who turned me out of doors day before yesterday.
It was about the thickness of the coal-bed, hardly sixty centimetres.
It was sixty metres from the cutting to the upbrow, and the passage, which the miners in the earth cutting had not yet enlarged, was a mere tube with a very irregular roof swollen by innumerable bosses; at certain spots the laden tram could only just pass; the putter had to flatten himself, to push on his knees, in order not to break his head, and besides this the wood was already bending and yielding.
Just then M. Grégoire came back dressed in a thick fustian jacket; he also was ruddy for his sixty years, with large, good-natured, honest features beneath the snow of his curly hair.
Sure enough, we owe you sixty francs these two years."
And they would see then if, after forty years of service, any one would dare to offer a pension of a hundred and fifty francs to an old man of sixty who spat out coal and whose legs were swollen with the water from the cuttings.
It was along this wall, for a length of more than a hundred metres, that the haulage was carried on, in a temperature of sixty degrees.
"I owed you sixty francs, now you're paid, thief!" said Maheude, enraged like the others.
He belonged to the guard of sixty men who were protecting the Voreux, and as this cruel sentry-duty frequently came round, he had before nearly stayed there for good with his dead feet.
Chapter 5ALL the entrances to the Voreux had been closed, and the sixty soldiers, with grounded arms, were barring the only door left free, that leading to the receiving-room by a narrow staircase into which opened the captains' room and the shed.
The desired reinforcements had not arrived, and his sixty men could hold out no longer.
The sixty, with their backs to the wall and their rifles loaded, again faced the mob.
"The common narwhale, or sea unicorn, often reaches a length of sixty feet.
This liquid mass totals 2,250,000,000 cubic miles and could form a sphere with a diameter of sixty leagues, whose weight would be three quintillion metric tons.
The Nautilus kept to an east-northeasterly heading, a speed of twelve miles per hour, and a depth between fifty and sixty meters.
This island group covers a surface area of 370 square leagues, and it's made up of some sixty subgroups, among which we noted the Gambier group, which is a French protectorate.
It marked a depth of sixty feet, a depth beyond the reach of atmospheric heat.
The log indicated a moderate speed, the pressure gauge a depth of about sixty feet.
Its average depth is 3,000 feet, its average width sixty miles.
His father, Monsieur Charles Denis Bartolome Bovary, retired assistant-surgeon-major, compromised about 1812 in certain conscription scandals, and forced at this time to leave the service, had taken advantage of his fine figure to get hold of a dowry of sixty thousand francs that offered in the person of a hosier's daughter who had fallen in love with his good looks.
Why, at least, was not her husband one of those men of taciturn passions who work at their books all night, and at last, when about sixty, the age of rheumatism sets in, wear a string of orders on their ill-fitting black coat?
I shall be something in your thought, in your life, shall I not?""Porcine race; prizes—equal, to Messrs. Leherisse and Cullembourg, sixty francs!"
His mind was not perplexed by accounts of what it was in the past, two thousand years ago, or sixty years ago merely, in the days of Voltaire and Louis XV.
That, gentlemen, is one hundred and sixty francs.
'There is Signor Geronimo on his way to London with a salary of sixty thousand francs.
Everywhere Julien found inscribed in charcoal, on the walls of the passages, sentences like the following: 'What are sixty years of trial, set in the balance with an eternity of bliss or an eternity of boiling oil in hell!'
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