Word: fifteens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with his nerve ends jumping like a field of grasshoppers, Blaydon flees home to England, to await the next volume of his saga. In parting from his friend-enemy, Groarke, Blaydon says accusingly: "You are Ireland, the same the English have been running their heads into for the past fifteen hundred years." Groarke answers: "No. I'm not like Ireland, I'm like life...
...Fifteen minutes later a U.S. Navy helicopter arrived, disgorged a squad of Americans in civilian clothes. For the first time the pilot opened his canopy, called, "I'm O.K.," and climbed out. The Japanese noted that he carried a pistol at his waist, that his flight suit bore no markings. Moments later more U.S. civilians arrived, drew pistols and ordered the Japanese away from the plane. But not before Eiichiro Sekigawa, editor of Tokyo's Air Views, got a meticulous description...
Adnan Menderes, the man who walked bloody but unbroken from a 1959 plane crash that killed fifteen, was not the man to moderate his ways in such an hour. Next day he went on the air to charge the Republicans with virtual treason. The students, he said, had become "tools of conspirators" and "fanatic party followers." He called their demonstrations "plots against the country's security." "They will soon learn," he said in his disarmingly soft voice, "what it means to stand against the state." In the morning, the Premier visited Ankara student dormitories-and got no back talk...
...helix like the original one. Apportioned between the halves of the dividing cells, the duplicated DNA molecules determine whether the new individuals will be men or muskrats, pine trees or pineapples. The hereditary characteristics of the next human generation-of about three billion people-will be controlled by one fifteen-thousandth of a cubic inch...
...limit of fifteen for each of the next five years seems an unrealistic and inflexible policy. No one, not even the architects of the program, knows exactly what course the new discipline will take and what the optimum number of concentrators will prove to be. Social Studies should remain a small field, but a little flexibility would be desirable—and despite the Faculty vote, there is some indication that the fifteen-man limit will be neither inviolable nor of long duration...