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Word: fifteens (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mark indicates; they gave Penn and Princeton a rough time, and two weeks ago shellacked a fine Columbia team, 88 to 69. Yale has a very well-balanced quintet, with four players averaging in double figures. The Elis shouldn't have much trouble defeating the Crimson by ten or fifteen points...

Author: By R. ANDREW Beyer, | Title: Crimson Basketball Team Plays at Brown and Yale | 2/18/1966 | See Source »

Second, the report claims that the race issue will become "politically neutral" with the next ten to fifteen years, allowing Republicans to attack the South's old rural and new urban economic problems: "As the race issue recedes as a political issue, economic questions will come to the forefront, and will have as much weight with the lower income whites as it will with the colored electorate." Even if race does cease to be a political issue, (which seems unlikely, since it has remained an issue in the "emancipated" North for a century) Negroes identified overwhelmingly with the Democratic Party...

Author: By Lee H. Simowitz, | Title: The Republican Review | 2/18/1966 | See Source »

...good to say that this is Stalinism, just Stalinism, all over again," he added. "Fifteen years ago, they would have been brought before a board of the secret police and been sent to Siberia or shot. The trial they had was public and what was said there is common knowledge by now among the intelligentsia...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gains Are Seen In Soviet Trial | 2/17/1966 | See Source »

...third line got into the action at 5:38 when center Don Grimble beat Cruikshank on a breakaway, to give Harvard a 4 2 edge. Fifteen seconds later, Parrot capped the scoring binge by converting a ten-foot rebound off a hard shot by Smith that Parrot himself...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Skaters Top Indians, 5-3; Parrot Hat Trick Decides | 2/14/1966 | See Source »

...fifteen, Copley embarked on his artistic career with a mezzotint portrait of the Reverend William Welsteed, the recently deceased minister of Boston's New Brick Church. The similarity between this portrait and Peter Pelham's 1743 mezzotint of the Reverend Mr. William Cooper is more than a stylistic one. Copley actually took the original Pelham plate and altered the features to fit the new commission...

Author: By Jonathan D. Fineberg, | Title: Copley Exhibit Depicts Colorist's Long Career | 2/12/1966 | See Source »

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