Word: fifteens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gathering strength for the assault. This threat of civil war was bad enough, but Hammarskjold was now more alarmed at the busy activities of Soviet Russia, which had first come in to help under the U.N.'s aegis, was now operating high, wide and handsome on its own. Fifteen Ilyushin transports, with "Republique du Congo" freshly painted on their sides, were flying in and out of Stanleyville, carrying troops and supplies to Lumumba's forward units. Also in the interior were 100 Russian trucks, and Soviet "technicians" were ar riving almost daily from the north...
...freely gave the name of the unit's commander. Colonel William Shelton, and equally freely confessed that, soaring far above the range of Russian fighters, he made "one or two" trips along the Soviet border in 1956, ''six or eight" in 1957. "ten or fifteen" in 1958 and in 1959, and "one or two" in 1960. When the big order finally came. Powers picked up a sack of sandwiches from his wife and flew southeast with Colonel Shelton to Pakistan, stopping once to refuel along the way. ("I do not remember the name of the airfield...
Everything, however, is not riotous and gay; there are odd little corners where things are pretty chilly-- little interludes which one comes upon in surprise, where there is not even a pretense to comedy. The gynecologist's daughter, a girl of fifteen, cannot understand why a longtime friend suddenly prefers lipstick and dresses to swimming and sweatshirts. Not an uncommon problem, one supposes,--yet the expression of fear on the girl's face as she tries to fit together her friend's attitude with her parent's impending divorce indicates that she is seeing it in a peculiarly painful...
...Fifteen Congressmen and two staff members of the House Public Works Committee stayed at a Manhattan hotel on a summer weekend to check up on "Long Island beach erosion." Several congressional wives accompanied them. A neat square of ink blotted out the "Mrs." on the hotel bills that were submitted for payment. Members of the same committee, accompanied by a few wives, appeared in Manhattan again to stay at the fashionable Plaza to "study" New York's harbor and thruway...
...time when mergers are all the talk, the New York Central Railroad has often ended up talking to itself. Fifteen months ago, the Central broke off merger talks with the Pennsylvania, the biggest U.S. railroad, after palavering for 14 months without agreement. Fortnight ago, after the Central had discussed merger for some months with the Chesapeake & Ohio and the Baltimore & Ohio Rail roads, the C. & 0. and the B. & O. an nounced that they plan to merge into the nation's second biggest line-and did not even mention the Central. Last week, with the prim-lipped hurt...