Word: fifteens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bienhoa. He was taken by helicopter to Saigon, but during the flight he died owing to his serious wounds." The New York Times reported four days later that the Colonel had, in fact, been arrested in a Catholic monastery and shot by the security police in a prison cell fifteen miles north of Saigon...
...like the two youths about fifteen who tried to pick us up. They came down to the front of the stands and casually asked, "Hey, what high school do you girls go to?" When we gently answered that we went to college, they were visibly shocked. "You go to cawlidge?" they asked incredulously; then they laughed...
After scoring on a rebound off goalie Nat Bowditch in the first period, Brown really got down to business. Just after the start of the second period Frank Golet lined a corner kick right into the center, about fifteen feet from the goal. Phil McQuire picked the ball off in the air and kicked...
...then, that's just what the story of Pierre is all about. Pierre, married for fifteen years to Franca, falls impulsively in love with Nicole, a young air-line stewardess, setting up Truffaut's traditional triangle. His love for her proceeds by starts of pure sexual drive and by stops of convention and respectability. Truffaut, to parallel Pierre, turns on the emotion at the level of characterization and turns it off with a plot of continuous cliches. As Pierre becomes increasingly trapped by his situation, the tension between your sympathy and disgust makes you more and more uncomfortable...
...Saltonstall, hugged tightly by the Princeton defense, fed a pass to his right wing, Dudley Blodget. Blodget pivoted and whipped the ball back to the middle. Inside Bill Schaefer timed the pass a foot off the ground and solidly smashed it fifteen yards into the goal...