Word: fifteen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...approximately one a.m. a flaming ashcan appeared in the center of the yard. Soon, fifteen Cambridge firemen came rushing from their nocturnal slumbers to quench the celebration. Armed with two pumpers and a rescue unit, the men made quick work of the inferno as five firefighters overturned the container and the rest flooded its contents...
Love. I don't remember when it first happened, I was so young; fifteen, and my hair hung down to my shoulders. I want love. Love is an instant of beauty with a sleek young man. Yes, love is worth it, I'll sell my body for the one possible beautiful instant. I can't help having begun wrong and now having to sell it, I was a poor girl, unskilled, thrown out onto the world...
...suggested changes are twofold. The first involves new procedures for closing Senate debate by a two-thirds majority of those present after two days of debate, or by a simple majority of those present after fifteen days. The anti-filibuster drive is headed primarily by men who fear the power of Southern conservatives in blocking civil rights legislation and who are willing to abandon a long-standing Senate tradition of talkativeness to achieve their civil rights objectives...
Company of Fifteen...
...cherry hung on a string, painted to fool the eye, emphasize the strangeness of the rest. Dali's title for this weird and serious effort: Quasi-grey picture which, closely seen, is an abstract one; seen from two metres is the Sistine Madonna of Raphael; and from fifteen metres is the ear of an angel measuring one metre and a half; which is painted with antimatter; therefore with pure energy...