Word: fifteenth
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...losers, dropping their fifteenth out of 21 games, could not cope with the inspired home quintet, which clinched at least as tie for the Eastern League title by winning. John Azary, Lion captain, tossed in 32 points for a new Columbia record. Azary's mates passed up some very good shots to let him get the ball...
...Larger Picture were horrified at the possible suggestion that the U.S. might drop atom bombs on China. For his tough hangar talk, O'Donnell was duly slapped down by the Air Force's boss, General Hoyt Vandenberg, then went back to his proud job-command of the Fifteenth Air Force (long-range bombers) at March Air Force Base, Calif...
...list of insulting words and phrases which the Speaker has ruled unsuitable for use in House of Commons debate. Among the banned expressions: insulting dog, behaving like a jackass, cad, caddishness, scurrilous, vicious vulgar, dishonest, swine, corrupt, criminal, blether (as applied to a speech), Pecksniffian cant. Last week the fifteenth edition of "Erskine May" was published; it showed four new epithets barred since the war's end: not a damned one of you opposite, stool pigeons, cheat, bastard...
...snorting tip-top undefeated Princeton basketball team plays the Crimson tomorrow night in the New Jersey whistle-stop. The Tigers, just back from winning the Spartan Classic tournament at Michigan State, are ranked fifteenth in the nation, but Norm Sheppard's men are in their best physical shape of the year and hungry for an upset in their first Eastern League game...
...morning of Korea, LeMay didn't wait for the Pentagon to stir. He got. on the wire with the commanders of his air forces: the Second, Eighth and Fifteenth. He ordered in Major General Emmett O'Donnell, boss of the Fifteenth at March Field. For two days, while SAC was in the dark on Washington's plans, the staff pored over their own top-secret intelligence on North Korean targets. "Rosie" O'Donnell's B-29s were loaded with flyaway kits, holding enough spare engines and parts to keep them flying for 30 days until...