Word: fifteene
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...Blot sat in the Great Hall, silently mulling over the galley proofs of the April Lampoon. In the corner propped up behind him was a large cardboard thermometer, colored up to 12.1 percent. Around it were slogans: "Let's hit fifteen in '53!" "Upward with Updike!" "Mother Advocate gains readers...
...strikers to disperse. Instead the crowd grew. Firemen turned their hoses on the strikers, who reacted with laughter and jeers until the plainclothesmen waded in, swinging rubber truncheons. Saber-wielding cops on horses charged into the mob. Tear-gas bombs ricocheted off iron-shuttered shops and cobbled streets. Fifteen strikers were wounded, one cop stabbed...
...Fifteen varsity ruggers, ten of them from the graduate schools, will open the Crimson's home schedule against a powerful M.I.T. team 3 p.m. Saturday on the House football field...
...property," for premeditated murder or banditry, or for "counterrevolutionary crimes." The barbed wire is thus kept tight around the bulk of the estimated 10 million to 20 million prisoners in Soviet slave labor camps. Also apparently unchanged is the old MVD regulation which stamps the "Minus Six" or "Minus Fifteen" code on the papers of ex-convicts, barring them forever from the six, or, in more extreme cases, the 15 most important Russian cities and their environs...
...will be different with two of the witnesses who appear before the committee today. They are not professors and Jenner's group is not calling them to testify about things that happened over fifteen years ago. They are students here at the Law School, who must appear in open hearings before the press and the public to talk probably about their undergraduate activities at Cornell. Their presence at the hearings is enough to cripple if not completely end their ambitions as lawyers. If they speak freely, they will undoubtedly have to give the names of friends, who in turn will...