Word: fifteens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Boston College seismograph station in Weston described the tremor as "a slight earthquake lasting from five to ten seconds." The center of the disturbance was in Boston Harbor, and it was felt as far as about fifteen miles inland in Massachusetts and New Hampshire...
...auspicious prelude to the football game, the Crimson ruggers out-fougth a stubborn Dartmouth fifteen 11-8 here Saturday morning. An effective scrum and good play by the backs were the keys to the Crimson's victory, its second in four outings...
Harvard may have trouble finding another fifteen for the second team, which is scheduled to begin play...
...dispatching a couple of Mirage VIs to drop 60-kiloton bombs on a red town of equivalent size. Meanwhile, back at the battlefield, the blues sprayed 15 tactical nuclear weapons on the reds in an area ten miles long and ten miles wide. More puffs of smoke aux champignons. Fifteen minutes passed, and the blues advanced in tanks and on foot. France won. Among army strategists, felicitations all around...
There is no escaping the fact that de facto segregation exists in the Boston public school system. The presence of sixteen schools--fifteen elementary and one junior high--with overwhelmingly Negro enrollments refuses the School Committee's claim that there is no segragation. There can also be no doubt that students in these sixteen schools receive a poorer education than do other students...