Word: fifteens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Numbers. Moving by the numbers, hat-changing ministers rushed from meetings of the Big Three to reconstitute themselves as The Four, The Six, The Eleven, The Fifteen, The Seventeen. They talked of defense shortcomings, of economic welfare, of hangman's justice in Cyprus, and gun patrols off Iceland...
Manolete was a significant man. And that is why one can sit through a hundred minutes of drivel movie to see fifteen of Manolete. The Death of Manolete is another Spanish Horatio Alger story. The only road to fame and wealth open to a poor Spanish boy as everyone knows by now is the bullring. The whole story, from dodging calves with a wooden sword to the inevitable fatal goring is told through old photographs of varying tones and textures, accompanied by a vaguely familiar soundtrack of bullfight music and roaring crowds...
...twelve years will not involve students or their parents in sacrifice much beyond the present. Indeed, the objective is to increase the sacrifice to some extent because, on the whole, as compared to the rise of per capita income, tuition has become a great bargain in the last fifteen years and this is at the expense of the kind of product that the colleges are turning out. If the student pays more, he will also get a higher quality product, we hope. Seymour E. Harris '20, Littauer Professor of Political Economy...
...Fifteen Russian exchange students arrived in New York City yesterday, five less than originally expected, according to Richard C. Pipes, research fellow at the Russian Research Center...
...secret, or senior societies, unlike the frats, or rather fraternities, are an institution peculiar to Yale. Each is a group of fifteen people dedicated to privacy and generally either self-im-provement, literature, liquor, athletics, or discussion. While they are public to the extent that the names of new members appear in the paper every year, they are secret in that no one ever reveals what goes on inside. Some have no windows. Others have many exits. Many retain mystical ceremonies and most have strange customs. Skull and Bones, for example, has the tradition that every member must leave...