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Word: fifteen (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Fatigue was a factor," Roby said. "It was the final game of seven games in fifteen days. We just...

Author: By Colin F. Boyle, | Title: Putting Pieces of the Basketball Puzzle in Place | 1/27/1988 | See Source »

...have to learn. When your lab partner is a water-skiing champion, and the guy you eat lunch with happens to be the son of a former governor of some western state, and when things like this happen all the time, you cannot help but learn to accomodate diversity. Fifteen minutes ago I learned that Mel Torme wrote The Christmas Song. Did you know that Mel Torme wrote The Christmas Song? Broadening like this is called intellectual growth, and it almost has to happen here...

Author: By Michael D. Nolan, | Title: Ah, Diversity | 12/16/1987 | See Source »

...after you've been workin' in there one night during the summer for about ten hours and figure it's time for you to go home for the night, I'm gonna come in and order 250 fried eggs. Fried over light. Four ball. Yeah, 250 of 'em. Fifteen ball. Then as you cook 'em, one by one, I'll eat all 250 of 'em. One ball. And my boy, I will then get up and walk out and leave you not one red cent tip. Seven ball...

Author: By Paul R. Simms, | Title: An Antidote for Hard Work | 12/2/1987 | See Source »

...Coast but is all the rage in southern Illinois and is spreading to eastern Missouri. A recent rash of seemingly random events has left one person dead and one wounded. Outside Collinsville, Ill., shotgun fire struck a man in the chest and arm as he drove down Interstate 55. Fifteen minutes later and ten miles away, another driver was shot in the head and killed. Across the state line in St. Louis County, Mo., last week, two people reported being fired upon by other drivers. In separate cases, Illinois police arrested several people who terrorized drivers with toy guns. Said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Illinois: Homicide on The Highway | 11/23/1987 | See Source »

Bill's sister Dawn (Sammi Davis) is only fifteen, but with the war on, she's already got a soldier beau. "It's the war," her mother says. "It's quick, quick, quick." Dawn replies, "I'm 15, still in school, and I want to be a nun when I grow up." A few months later she's pregnant...

Author: By Ross G. Forman, | Title: Blitzed Out | 11/20/1987 | See Source »

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