Word: fifteens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...limited and indirect contacts with the shadowy underworld of agents and counteragents, it appeared that the Africans are taking the communists for a ride. There is a small "party" which calls itself the African National Congress, led by Zuberi Mtemvu, a TANU renegade who recently returned from Peiping with fifteen boiler suits and enough money to buy himself a Mercedes- Benz. The Congress polled 60 votes the first time they ran a candidate, and 67 the second time. (The joke runs that Mtemvu's family had increased by seven during the interim.) I was told of men who had approached...
...Fifteen times during yesterday's contest Elliot Aronson asked students watching the televised game to estimate the chances that the batter would hit safely, strike out, hit a home run, etc. The purpose: to determine the influence of situational factors on the viewer's answer...
...Fifteen busloads of Episcopalians-bishops, priests and laymen-took a morning off from the General Convention to tool through industrial Detroit for a look at "the 20th century workingman." Trailing through the pounding, whirring world of the assembly lines, the men and women from greystone, Gothic city churches and suburban spires stared at the men who are making the '62 models. The auto workers stared back...
...slow pace. For the favored Carry Back, "there was no running room anywhere," said his jockey, Johnny Sellers. "When I called on him, he just spit the bit out." In the stretch, Sherluck overhauled Globemaster to win by 2¼ lengths and pay $132.10 for a $2 ticket. Fifteen lengths behind, Carry Back was a dismal seventh...
There is no social structure in Washington Elms; in the fifteen years since it was built, social workers have found no centers of life, no bars where men congregate, not even a corrupt political machine to command loyalty. Abandonment here means that a majority of children say their father does not live at home. And abandonment is the insularity of inferior government services, of political impotence, of being a football in organized charity's fights with the city of Cambridge, of living in The Elms, roughest, poorest, dirtiest most hopeless blocks in the city...