Word: fifth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Burnt Child. In Houston, George M. Friddle declared in a hollow voice, "Never again," as he applied for his fifth divorce from the same wife...
...colored and was a captain in the Fifth Army in Italy. . . . General Lee . . . took a greater interest in us (colored troops in Leghorn) than we had formerly experienced. He instituted many changes and improvements, came around to ask individual G.I.s among us how they were getting on, and in other ways treated us as American soldiers (which type of treatment it was not always our wont to receive). He was a standout...
...most of that. To her own piano accompaniment, she sang The First Kiss, and Un Bel Di Vedremo from Madame Butterfly. For good measure, she presented the judges with three pastel art works of her own creation. At 47 minutes after midnight on the pageant's fifth night, the dark-haired singer from Memphis was crowned Miss America...
...other information for the audience. Britain was now a fifth-rate nation, dictated to by 4,000 Jews afloat in British ships. There was only one way to stop terrorism. Take out whole Jewish families in Palestine and shoot them against a wall and do the same to Jewish families here...
Counter-Revolution. As with most revolutions, this one bred its own counterrevolution. Last week, in the perfumed air of a pale blue room on the third floor of Manhattan's Saks Fifth Avenue, one act of that counterrevolution was being staged. There Designer Sophie Gimbel was displaying her fall collection of 125 models. In the world of high fashion, it was a notable event...