Word: fifteenths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After a year at Boston's Emerson College and another three with the Fifteenth Air Force near Foggia, Italy (since enshrined as Archie's old unit), Lear was laid off his first job with a Manhattan publicity firm. Then he went bankrupt with his own novelty ashtray business. He took his wife and infant daughter to Los Angeles, where half of his luck improved. He at least survived as a door-to-door salesman of furniture and baby pictures...
Angola has been in the hands of the Portuguese since Prince Henry the Navigator commanded the empire's fleets from Lisbon in the fifteenth century. In 1482, Diogo Cao became the first Westerner to set eyes on the land now called Angola...
...incumbents are both seeking re-election. Rep. John J. Toomey is seeking his fifteenth consecutive two-year term, and Rep. Michael J. Lombard hopes to gain his fourth full term in the Massachusetts House...
...runners who were in competition for the squad's top five positions have been injured so far this season. Of these, Quirk is the only one who has regained anything approaching top form. Bobby Seals finished fifteenth in Tuesday's meet, but the virus forced him to drop out of yesterday's race...
...their lectures-THEY HAVE NOTHING TO SAY. Invite them to dinner-THEY HAVE NOTHING TO SAY. Go to a Faculty meeting, if you can get in-THEY HAVE NOTHING TO SAY, and say it badly. (How painful to hear Nobel Prize Winner debate Famous China Expert on some fifteenth little amendment to the all-powerful...