Word: fifteens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...postwar immigrants contributed notably to Canada's prosperity and to its culture. Fifteen years younger than the national average and with a high proportion of workers, they swarmed into mines, farms, factories. Forty percent of the scientists and engineers added to Canada's working force since 1950 were foreign-born; last year's newcomers included 1,838 teachers, 635 physicians, 54,376 skilled workers. Immigrants founded one of the West Coast's major lumber companies; another immigrant developed the nation's biggest uranium mine. Foreign-born artists organized new ballet companies in Toronto and Winnipeg...
...goes for ten or fifteen minutes. Total strangers confronting total strangers, making nervous small talk with artificial poise, watching through narrow eyes for the wrong color of socks, a grammatical slip or affectation, a pun or wisecrack in questionable taste. Then...
...Gown ("The Cap"), and Cottage ("The Cheese")--among whose former members have been both F. Scott Fitzgerald and John Foster Dulles. Graduates of the most famous Eastern prep schools, the scions of stock hallowed by generations of fame and money, and other individuals who can sell themselves well in fifteen minutes or so, are nearly assured admission to one of these. To make Ivy is social apotheosis...
Even while on its Florida launching pad, the Army's satellite Explorer (official scientific name: 1958 Alpha) insistently broadcast its hoarse radio cry. Ten minutes after takeoff, Antigua in the British West Indies heard it soar triumphantly overhead. Fifteen minutes later it was radio-tracked over Ghana on the west coast of Africa. Around the earth it swept, but not until it passed homebound over California-nearly two hours after it left the ground-were the scientists sure that their bird was in a stable orbit...
...Friday before the Sunday show, the hotel was growing tense. The poolside restaurant, its high glass walls plastered with brown wrapping paper, was now a TV control room, sporting a DANGER-HIGH VOLTAGE sign, and sprouting cable everywhere. Fifteen Cuban cops guarded the equipment through the night. Guest Star Mamie Van Doren and Singer Steve Lawrence toiled at synchronizing their lips with songs they had recorded in Manhattan to avoid technical hitches on the Cuban location. Producer Bill Harbach and his staff kept auditioning local talent, came up with bongo beaters, a singing quartet and a dancer named Tybee Afra...