Word: fifteenths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...separated. "Divorce is too expensive...Children are a heavy burden. Each one brings fresh trouble. And each year there's another one. I've had thirteen." Dona Rosa is 43 and pregnant. She shows you the picture of one of her daughters, dressed up in white for her fifteenth birthday, her coming...
...Dartmouth was making a lot of noise," said Jeff Brokaw, who finished fifteenth for Harvard. "They said they were better than us because they beat Columbia, a team that beat us, but we just outran them," he said...
...meeting marked the Committee's fifteenth anniversary and was attended by representatives of the University of Chicago, MIT, the University of Pennsylvania, Stanford, Harvard, as well as officials from several leading American corporations...
Sophomore pitcher Nils Nilson struck out the side in the seventh and final inning of Saturday's JV baseball game against Tufts, and when the last strike was called, Nilson had himself a no-hitter. It was his fifteenth strikeout of the game as only three Jumbos reached base while the Crimson batters were driving home 11 runs...
...Vladimir Nabokov published Ada, his fifteenth novel. He was then 70. In his youth he had identified and attached his name to a new species of butterfly, created the first Russian crossword puzzle, and translated Alice in Wonderland into his native tongue. Later, in the thirties, under the pseudonym V.V. Sirin, he had written what many critics consider the finest Russian novel of the century, The Gift. In the fifties, with a book called Lolita, he had put the word "nymphet" into the dictionary. Ada's masterful complexity seemed a natural culmination to the long list of novels, stories, poems...