Word: fifteens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more Harvard organizations have added their endorsement to the march and rally, now sponsored by about fifteen groups. Both the Civil Rights Coordinating Committee and Republicans and Independents for Johnson will participate...
Switching his tactics, Master Bullitt drove his private elevator, located in the adjacent shaft, down to the basement. Then, by means of a human chain, the trapped students were lifted out of the escape hatch at the top of the "people's elevator" into the neigh boring one. Within fifteen minutes the crippled conveyance had been completely evacuated and Quincy House had returned to normalcy...
...Fifteen years ago, California politics was floating through an era of constructive good feeling. Governor Earl Warren had spread his bipartisan patrimony over every policial faction, and candidates ran for office with genteel good humor, eschewing debate for folksy celebrations of the sun, surf, and oranges...
Local Negroes began sit-ins in McComb. The first attempt sent both participants to jail for 30 days. Fifteen-year-old Brenda Travis and five other high school students tried a second time, and Miss Travis was sentenced to one year in a state school for delinquents...
...Fifteen "teachers" and 40 "students" assembled nervously on the Rust campus at 9:30 a.m. on Thursday. The first few minutes were a combination of freedom songs and Jewish folk songs that roused little excitement. Finally small classes were formed, and somehow a freedom school began...