Word: 46th
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hacked from Rock. The 10,000 regulars of Lieut. General Liu Lien-yi's 46th Division took it harder. Glumly, soldiers loaded guns, mortars, electric cables, fresh boxes of ammunition still labeled: "From U.S.A. for Mutual Defense." Behind them, explosions thundered as demolition teams blew up pillboxes and gun emplacements laboriously hacked out of the rock...
...grace and charm; Bobby Van, in Ray Bolger's old role, has much of the master's ease and dexterity; Elaine Stritch stops the show with an aggressively lowdown warbling of an added song, You Took Advantage of Me. But for notable stretches there is torpor on 46th Street...
...quiet luncheon held at Chequers, their country home, Sir Winston and Lady Churchill celebrated their 46th wedding anniversary...
...rest of the country. In 1840 it ranked sixth in population, with 13 Representatives in Congress. By this year it had declined to 21st in population, eight Congressmen. Illiteracy is high: one out of every six adult Kentuckians has less than five grades of education. The state ranks 46th in teachers' salaries (with a minimum of $900 a year). As recently as World War II, 14% of Old Kentucky's rural homes had no toilet facilities whatever, 83% had only outdoor privies. Per-capita income is the seventh lowest...
...American (Northern) Baptists are establishing new churches at the rate of one every seven days. This note of boom set the tone for the American Baptists' 46th annual convention last week, as 3,311 delegates and 5,841 visitors gathered in Denver's Municipal Auditorium to hear the good word about their 1,550,000-member denomination...