Word: fifteene
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...Fifteen minutes later he was asleep; and some how the alarm didn't ring until 10:15 the next morning...
...studying. "I wonder," he wondered, "whether I could read a line, then shut my eyes and have a photograph of it in my mind. When I finish the book, the only problem will be turning the pages: but perhaps memory can even do that for me." He spent fifteen minutes experimenting, but all he could picture was the book's publication date...
...Brazil's press calls him, every new day is a welcome event, a chance to measure new success. At 5:45 one morning, on a typical day, Kubitschek rolled over in bed, buzzed for the papers. Fifteen minutes later he was ambling from telephone to telephone (four beside the bed, four in the bathroom, three in an adjoining study); in one hour he called three Cabinet ministers, one admiral, two generals, two secretaries, the chief of Cabinet, the food supply coordinator, and the administrator of the nearly finished new capital of Brasilia...
Archibald MacLeish's public lectures have generated widespread interest and enthusiasm. The second lecture in a series of eight based on discussions in Humanities 136 completely filled Sanders Theatre, and the two lectures have attracted a total audience of over fifteen hundred people...
...becoming piqued with the government, buys an old infantry uniform, commandeers a dozen healthy, helmeted Berlin youths, marches them to the neighboring town of Koepenick, and ends up arresting the mayor and sending him to jail. The film, as it might appear, is primarily a comedy, and the last fifteen minutes are delightful in a Teutonic, beer and wursty manner...