twenty-six

Hoover had designated twenty-six thousand individuals to be arrested and jailed in any national emergency, including Martin Luther King Jr. and Norman Mailer.

The Good Fight

Between 1900 and 1940, more Jews won boxing world championships—twenty-six—than Irish, Italian, German, or African American fighters.

A Renegade History of the United States

This was twenty-six years before Margaret Sanger more famously opened her first birth control clinic.

A Renegade History of the United States

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.”

A Renegade History of the United States

Nineteen of the twenty-six defendants 73 percent on federal death row under active death sentences are nonwhite, and all but one are black.

The Conservative Assault on the Constitution

“Fifteen unicorns, twelve griffons, twenty-six phoenixes, and five dragons,” Mountain answered promptly.

Arcane Circle

This blunder killed one officer and thirteen enlisted men and wounded twenty-six.

George Washington’s First War

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.

The Longest War

But in practice, of the twenty-six countries that made up the alliance, few would do any real fighting.

The Longest War

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.

The Longest War