Word: fifteene
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Barbarians, a make-shift fifteen composed of local doctors and students with "considerable rugby experience," could be a difficult first hurdle for the Crimson. Returning starters from last year's squad who will be playing today are Jack Downing, Jim Keating, and John Van-Schalkwyk. Langley Kavaliku is out with a twisted knee...
...Fifteen years after its beginning, the League of Nations was a scrap of paper, and the world was lurching and reeling towards war. That there is still hope for peace today, fifteen years after the founding of the United Nations, is due in great part to the efforts of Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold. The recent drama in the General Assembly and the failure of the Soviet plan to weaken Hammarskjold's authority illustrate to what extent this extraordinary man has defined his own role in world politics...
...musical comedy, of course," says George Abbott, "is to please." Abbott, who has co-authored and produced fifteen musicals and directed ten others, has a reputation in the theater as a ruthless perfectionist whose formula of pace plus "p-zazz" results in a hit nearly every time. This week he has set up out-of-town headquarters at the Ritz Hotel and the Shubert Theater during the pre-Broadway trial of Tenderloin, the tale of "the trial of a boy's soul" during New York...
...gathering strength for the assault. This threat of civil war was bad enough, but Hammarskjold was now more alarmed at the busy activities of Soviet Russia, which had first come in to help under the U.N.'s aegis, was now operating high, wide and handsome on its own. Fifteen Ilyushin transports, with "Republique du Congo" freshly painted on their sides, were flying in and out of Stanleyville, carrying troops and supplies to Lumumba's forward units. Also in the interior were 100 Russian trucks, and Soviet "technicians" were ar riving almost daily from the north...
...freely gave the name of the unit's commander. Colonel William Shelton, and equally freely confessed that, soaring far above the range of Russian fighters, he made "one or two" trips along the Soviet border in 1956, ''six or eight" in 1957. "ten or fifteen" in 1958 and in 1959, and "one or two" in 1960. When the big order finally came. Powers picked up a sack of sandwiches from his wife and flew southeast with Colonel Shelton to Pakistan, stopping once to refuel along the way. ("I do not remember the name of the airfield...