Word: fifteens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...villagers had been alerted ahead of time, and as we drove in a great cheer went up from the kids lining the "main street." I grinned from ear to ear in the darkness as the kids cheered, that sound seemed to make the whole two years worth while. Fifteen minutes later, of course, I wanted to grab the same kids by the throat and throttle them one by one because they made so much noise you could barely hear a word of the film. The chief, a slightly addled old man, white-haired, with a rasping voice, stamped...
...will be a long war indeed if the United States tries to prevent Communism by erasing it from the countryside. Optimistic officials guess it will take five years. Most estimates are on the order of ten to fifteen years...
...social life. One Ivy freshman out of seven said he dated more than four times a month. At Harvard, however, one out of four made that claim. Eight per cent had at least ten dates a month, and a lucky one per cent claimed to have dated more than fifteen times each lunation...
...Certain faculty members are naturally lazy," John G. Morrill, Coop general manager, said. "We usually don't have problems with more than ten or fifteen per cent of them, but this turned out to be the worst year we've ever...
...Fifteen R.O.T.C. cadets have already joined the unit, and Shean expects the membership to increase to about 20, or nearly one-fourth o Harvard's total Army R.O.T.C. enrollment...