Word: 15th
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...precautionary measure against terrorism, security guards required everyone entering the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, where the HMC offices are housed on the 15th and 16th floors, to walk through a metal detector and pass their belongings through scanners like the ones used in airports...
...early morning of the 15th, there was a prank by little kids, who attempted to light a little container of petrol on fire," said the employee who asked not to be identified. She said the gate to the center's building was "scorched" but that no one was hurt and there was no serious damage to the facility...
MASTERPIECES OF JAPANESE SCREEN PAINTING by Miyeko Murase (Braziller; $150). The aphorism "Poetry is painting, painting is mute poetry" is exemplified in these 37 exquisite screens painted between the 15th and 19th centuries. A boldly abstract rendering of blue irises from the Edo period is as striking and modern as a Matisse cutout...
...about the need for "clarity." Mazowiecki was one of those rumored to be part Jewish. In one of the campaign's most dismal moments, the bishop of Mazowiecki's hometown of Plock felt called upon to affirm the Prime Minister's Catholic ancestry all the way back to the 15th century...
...reading of the council decision might be that the United States has now secured from the international community a mandate to launch a full attack after the 15th of January. This would be a regrettable misinterpretation of the actual case. The members of the Security Council are hardly united around the idea of American attack in six weeks time...