Word: 14th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...14th week of the war against the Fascists, the nation was in great peril. Even if the Red defenses could by sheer will power hurl back the enemy, Russia would have to start building all over again. And if the defenses failed, then there was nothing to look forward to but a world beyond imagining, in which a face was not even a face unless it was German...
...dozen were members of the Yale Unit, a little band of athletic youngsters who wanted to enter aviation. The time was ripe. In 1917 the U.S. ranked 14th in air power in the world and the U.S. Naval Air Force consisted of 38 pilots and 54 airplanes (none of the 54 really suitable for service even in the war of 25 years...
...wrote Historian J. F. C. Hecker of the great dancing mania of the 14th and 15th Centuries. By medieval standards, the square-dancing mania that possessed many a U.S. youth last week was pretty tame, but Schoolmaster Lloyd Shaw, its originator, observed hopefully that children, too, were beginning to cut loose...
...plague-the same Black Death that swept over Europe in the 14th Century, killing a fourth of the population. This case occurred in California last month. The boy caught the disease from fleas which carried the plague bacilli (Pasteurella pestis) from sick squirrels. No effective treatment for plague is known, and the boy died in three days...
After taking a Moral Science Tripos at Cambridge University, Wing Commander Straight turned professional automobile racer, won many contests at England's famed Brooklands speedway, became a director of 21 British aviation companies, married sightly Lady Daphne Finch-Hatton, daughter of the 14th Earl of Winchilsea and Nottingham, and in 1936 became a British subject...