Word: fifteens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bohemia-Moravia, but by then he had gone too far; the verdict at Nürnberg in 1946 was: "For carrying out and assuming responsibility for the execution of the foreign policy of the Nazi conspirators, and authorizing, directing and taking part in war crimes and crimes against humanity-fifteen years' imprisonment...
...handy 'rosary-counter,' [which] has a small dial with all fifteen mysteries. A moving needle points, compass-like, to each bead (or number, in this case) as you click the handy little red plastic button. So you're interrupted. Look! The needle stays loyally on the elusive bead. Not a mystery is allowed to slip through your fingers anymore...
Part of this reorientation will undoubtedly come from the fifteen-man President's Committee to Study the Undergraduate Years. This group of four deans and 11 faculty members, plus President Dodds, began work this fall and plans to report late next year. In many respects their work resembles that of Yale's Committee on General Education, which published its controversial plan A and plan B a year ago, although the committee's final report will probably be less revolutionary...
Another reason for the pickup is the Administration's fiscal policy. Fifteen months ago, while the boom still was pushing up prices, the Administration tightened up on credit. As soon as business showed signs of contracting, the Government nimbly reversed its policy, followed through with more liberal housing laws and the biggest tax cut in history ($7.5 billion). The change in policy cost the Administration a balanced budget. But, just like the Truman Administration, the Republicans thought a balanced budget not worth paying for with more jobless, less business expansion and falling sales...
...wife became ill in Hong Kong, Huang made his second fruitless appeal for an exit permit. In July, Communist charges at Geneva that the United States was holding four thousand Chinese in this country brought Huang one last hope. In negotiations with the Communists, the United States released fifteen Chinese, among them Sheldon H. T. Liang, ex-Research Fellow at the University. But Huang was not among the chosen...