Word: fifth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This vanguard contingent is all sixth and seventh term men, who will be followed next Monday and Tuesday by third and fourth termers, respectively. Men in their fifth term bring up the rear a week from Friday...
...Without a Face. To many a U.S. citizen, Andrei Gromyko had become almost a U.S. household nuisance. He was the closest visible embodiment of Russia's apocalyptic orneriness. He took walks on Fifth Avenue. He sat in the last row of the Trans-Lux theater, on Madison and 60th, taking in a newsreel. Fred Allen cracked jokes about him. And yet he was like a man without a face...
...Recessional. As 400 million Indians (one-fifth of mankind) became self-governing, the British recessional was well begun. From lonely outposts in Kashmir, looking nervously north to the Russian border, from lush Assam where tea bushes grow in the spectral sau trees' shade, from residences deep in central India's jungles, from gay and airy Bangalore, more than 60,000 Britons had served notice that they were leaving the land which had been Britain's treasure and shame, her pride and her increasing care...
Winged Finance. The aircraft slump, which forced some manufacturers into sidelines ranging from iceboxes to canoes and coffins, found Lockheed Aircraft Corp. in the automobile finance business. Lockheed's 95%-owned Pacific Finance Corp. of California, now the nation's fifth largest, reported a six months net of $395,546, more than...
...fifth inning was another story. The first batter led off with a single. The next two men walked, filling the bases. Harrison then forced the next two batters to pop up, but walked another man. Cliff Crosby then tripled down the first base line clearing the bases and making the score 5 to 4. In their half, the Crimson made it five all with two singles and two walks. The score remained tied until the last of the eight...