Word: fifteens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This year, another element has come forth to champion the cause of substandard public schooling. In a recent statement, fifteen top Catholic ecclesiastics declared that they will oppose all Federal aid to elementary and high schools unless it includes assistance to private (a cuphemism for "parochial") institutions as well. Since this group included all five U.S. cardinals, its views will probably not go unheeded by the nation's 35 million Catholics...
...time disarmament negotiations are resumed this week at Geneva, their success of failure will already have been largely determined. Fifteen years of talks have shown little else but the fact that what is said across the tables is trivial compared to what goes on in the front offices and on the backstairs of government buildings in Washington and Moscow. The conferences are juggled back and forth between the hands of militarists, propaganda-minded diplomats, occasional wild-eyed idealists, and a few realistic advocates of arms control. If there are to be any results from this latest effort, then the balance...
...whether he will allow his envoys to negotiate freely. If Kennedy is sincere, there is a good chance for an agreement that may open the way for further arms control measures. But if the usual stalling techniques reappear, the diplomats may very well go on talking for the next fifteen years...
...recent years, she has been increasingly intrigued by the intricacies of overcoming technical problems. "The theme always dictates the form for me," she stresses. Until the last ten or fifteen years her themes blended with the form most natural to her--the short story. "One person's whole life can be put into 2,000 words," she notes, "but groups of people interacting on one another won't fit into a short story. So I tried putting them in a novel." Her methods of writing differ widely in the two forms, although in most cases the finished product falls into...
...Fifteen straight points stretched the Penn lead to 45 to 23, before Gene Augustine's jumper at the half-time buzzer made it 45-25. The Quakers scored on 20 of 36 shots in the half, a 56 per cent average...