Word: fifteens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...General Assembly this week continues debating Russia's refusal to pay its share of peace-keeping costs, one of the policing operations at issue marks a memorable anniversary. Fifteen years ago, the U.N. arranged its first cease-fire in the Arab-Jewish Pales tine War. Today the U.N. is still there...
...Longfellow Appian Way. The signs point to a period of consolidation and re-Hall and in the new seven-story castle to be built across the street on examination--and perhaps to a renewed effort at finding "hard" money to give financial strength to programs developed over the past fifteen years...
...fever was everywhere, and every act seemed to fan the flames in another place. Fifteen hundred Chicago Negroes picketed a cemetery that had refused to cremate one of their race. In Michigan, a resort shut down when 50 pickets arrived with signs charging segregation there. In Baltimore, eight people went to jail after picketing a segregated amusement park...
Hayes called the Council's attention to "the great battle over another building next to the Cambridge Common two years ago." He stated that the castle "may even be far worse than that building." Hayes was referring to John Bristol Sullivan's plan to construct a fifteen story building on stilts over part of Harvard Square. The Sullivan plan was strongly opposed by Harvard...
Making films about World War II is like concocting compounds in organic chemistry. There are roughly half a dozen entertaining ways to kill a soldier, nine or ten basic acts of Nazi inhumanity, perhaps fifteen kinds of heroism in combat, and at least a hundred bits of cliched battle dialogue. To put together a new movie, the writer and director have only to choose several ingredients from each grouping. Allowing for duplications, countless combinations can be made. Very few are worth the trouble...