Word: fifteens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...asked for samples of hybrid corn, agreed to exchange seeds; the Russians wondered whether the Department told farm-machinery companies what kind of tractors and combines they should design. When they were informed that the U.S. now has more than 4,600,000 tractors-compared to 1,500,000 fifteen years ago, one of the Russians threw his hands above his head in amazement...
After the war, with the growing demand for a sleek, easily handled racing yacht, Uffa Fox came into his own. He designed the "Flying Fifteen,": a slim. 20-ft.-keel sloop carrying 155 sq. ft. of sail, with a planing hull. By 1948 the Flying Fifteens were the rage among racers (including Prince Philip), became a standard feature at Cowes. With more than 2.000 Fox-designed yachts afloat throughout the world (but few in the U.S.), Uffa has no trouble keeping up his credit at the pubs of Gowes. When the weather prohibits sailing, he rides Frantic, his mare, around...
...fewer than nine of the 17 men in Group A had histories of acting out their aggressive urges at the drop of a hat. Five others had disorders resembling schizophrenia. Fifteen had an attitude of rejection toward the expected child. The emotional symptoms that developed in this group were either severely neurotic or borderline psychotic; 15 became so anxious and irritable that their usefulness to the Air Force was impaired; and eight were depressed-two of them so severely that they attempted suicide. There were some signs of accident proneness, stomach upsets and hypochondria...
...time the police van arrived, Symonds was lying unconscious on the ground. Fifteen hours later. Gene Symonds. 28, died of a fractured skull, the 13th U.S. correspondent to be killed in Far Eastern war and violence since the end of World...
...first the Reds lived up to their promises of special treatment. Fifteen scientists got elected to the National People's Congress, more than from any other profession. Most of the non-Communists continued to teach, serving the government on a part-time basis. Some went to key technical jobs in the Ministry of Water Conservation, the Bureau of Railroad Research, the Ministry of Forestry. All got more pay and faster promotion than colleagues in the social sciences, regardless of party standing...