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  • They have adjusted and adapted blades and rotors, turning them horizontally, vertically, and even to sixty-degree angles, they have enlarged everything, discovering bigger is better and still bigger is still better … until it is not better any more, and diminishing returns set-in.

    Fury Power | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles 2009

  • No one seemed to mind; in fact, the hundreds of thousands of spectators were somber but festive as they observed the ceremony, the balmy sixty-degree temperatures helping to lighten the mood.

    The Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree Nancy Armstrong 2010

  • It consisted of two rotating measuring horns at sixty-degree angles pointed through the upper hatch of the plane.

    George F. Smoot - Autobiography 2007

  • Thank the chili gods New York City was having an unusually springlike sixty-degree winter evening.

    Recession Chili (and the Curious Case of the Ridiculously Packed Chili Takedown) 2009

  • The weather everywhere stayed stubbornly warm, and people seemed edgily gratefulwhat could this mean, sixty-degree weather in November?

    Excerpt: The Year of Pleasures by Elizabeth Berg 2005

  • I opened my door and stepped out into the sixty-degree haze.

    The 6th Target Patterson, James, 1947- 2007

  • It can go over a fifteen-inch wall or climb a sixty-degree slope.

    The Moses Expedition Juan Gómez-Jurado 2007

  • It can go over a fifteen-inch wall or climb a sixty-degree slope.

    The Moses Expedition Juan Gómez-Jurado 2007

  • It can go over a fifteen-inch wall or climb a sixty-degree slope.

    The Moses Expedition Juan Gómez-Jurado 2007

  • In a moderately sane world they'd be gone tomorrow, but apparently there are legal protocols; you can't just kick people onto the street to brave the bone-chilling sixty-degree "winter" cold.

    Archive 2006-12-01 Mac 2006

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