Word: fifteens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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MISS LEONORA WHEN LAST SEEN, by Peter Taylor. Fifteen stories of marriages and families, institutions and hypocrisies, most of them set in the South. Taylor's knowledge of his settings and the elegance of his writing make the collection...
...Crimson's hitting was just as unspectacular the next afternoon, but del Rossi turned in a brilliant, two-hit job that handcuffed Richmond, 2-0. The junior port-sider fanned fifteen, walked none, and yielded only two singles...
...Fifteen hundred miles away, an earthquake was devastating Anchorage, Alaska, and a ring of nearby towns and villages. With the thunderous impact of a mountain falling into the sea, the shock waves from Alaska rippled outward, sending tsunamis (seismic sea waves) around the Pacific, flooding portions of North American western shores, coursing across the sea toward Japan and southward toward Hawaii...
MISS LEONORA WHEN LAST SEEN, by Peter Taylor. Fifteen stories about corrosive marriages and disfiguring age-quiet stories, right on target, that may well outlive their flashier contemporaries...
...battalion of frock-coated military-academy cadets stood ramrod straight; eight mariachi bands and two brass bands took their positions. Fifteen thousand people milled around expectantly. Across the airport roof stretched a sign etched in blue flowers: "Francia y México par la Paz del Mundo-Viva Francia." Then out of a warm, clear sky whistled the white-and-blue-trimmed Caravelle carrying Charles de Gaulle. Down the steps he lumbered, over to a red dais, and to the first crack of a 21-gun salute, France's towering (6 ft. 4 in.) President leaned low and bussed...