Word: fifteens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...open his own aircraft factory in Los Angeles. Said Chandler: "I don't know much about either aviation or Mr. Douglas, Mr. Henry, but if you think they're both O.K., I'll help. How much do you need, Mr. Douglas?" Replied the awed plane builder: "Fifteen thousand...
...Fifteen years after Coke's death in 1634, Charles I paid with his head for trying to follow suit. It was Coke, above all men, who wrote finis to the royal four-flush...
...Fifteen years after he was retired and charged with dereliction of duty, and almost 13 years after a court of inquiry cleared him of blame, Rear Admiral Husband E. Kimmel, 75, four-star commander of the Navy's Pacific Fleet when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, was honored by his Annapolis classmates. Last week, in an election hailed by the Naval Academy's alumni magazine as "an affirmation of faith by those who have known him well for more than 50 years," Admiral Kimmel was named alumni president of the class...
Death. Sergeant Julitz and three others managed to make it to the opposite shore. But 19 more were carried, struggling and gasping in their heavy combat gear, downstream towards the Iller Bridge. Four were rescued. Fifteen went to their deaths. It was the first major training accident in the history of West Germany's nascent (96,000-strong) Bundeswehr...
Tastefully toppered for the Epsom Derby, Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan ignored with statesmanlike restraint an infield dotted with an "American" striptease tent, a rock-'n'-roll band and a "Beautiful Slave Girl in the Grip of a Fifteen-Foot Deadly Reptile," watched with reserve as Crepello, the favorite, galloped home free (see SPORT...