Word: fifteens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Attempting to promote sales of President Pusey's Age of the Scholar, the Harvard Cooperative Society advertises a "special fifteen percent patronage refund on cash purchases of this timely work...
...mere fifteen minutes out of Saigon and directly south of the capital, the three lead Hueys, bristling with rockets and machine guns, buzzed the target area; they hedge-hopped lines of foliage, hovered over huts, scrutinized the paddyfields. "Negative contact," U.S. Pilot Captain Dennis Boyle radioed to the main force, meaning no ground fire. The rest of the fleet fluttered into the zone, and while armed craft circled protectively, five "skinned" (unarmed) Hueys alighted in a clearing and disgorged 70 Vietnamese troops...
...program of General Education that came from General Education in a Free Society fifteen years ago reflected well the intentions that President Conant expressed when he appointed the Committee on the Objectives of General Education in a Free Society. That Committee had two purposes: one general, to provide a counterbalance for the department scholarship that dominated undergraduate teaching, and one specific, to create a program that would put Harvard in touch with a growing sense among the nation's intellectuals that higher education was neglecting the great books and ideas, which were the foundation of the Western intellectual heritage...
...plane's pilot, Peter Gram, of West Action, Mass., had called his base at 10:40 a.m. to report that the engines were losing power; fifteen minutes later, the plane crashed and both officers were killed...
...Boston match, however, was a disappointment. Injuries and illness depleted Harvard's ranks, and the fifteen finally fielded proved unequal to the job. A poor three-quarter line coupled with ineffective tackling made the Crimson easy prey for the experienced international Boston Club, which walked away with the game...