Word: fifth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Willing & Able." The railroads, which use 110 million tons of coal a year (about one-fifth of the nation's annual production), had been clamoring for higher rates in order to meet employees' demands for a 20?-an-hour wage boost even before the new coal prices hit them. Now they would be clamoring louder than ever...
...University of Cincinnati, he once raised such a commotion when a dean tried to censor him that the university's president was replaced during the resulting rumpus. As the young rabbi of a Reform Temple in Brooklyn, he led a funeral procession up Manhattan's Fifth Avenue to mourn pogroms in Czarist Russia. His fashionable congregation objected, and Magnes resigned. During World War I he became an ardent pacifist, was booed and hissed by patriotic gatherings whenever he spoke. Embarrassed U.S. Jews denounced him as disloyal...
...such fast maneuvering, slender, affable Ferd Owen, 58, has become the biggest mule and horse trader in the U.S. His natty suits, hickory cane, and diamond stickpin (shaped like a mule's head) belie his origin as the fifth of nine sons of a poor Missouri farmer. Ferd went to school for only six months. At 15, he went into business for himself as a "road trader," driving all over the Midwest in a covered wagon and swapping animals with farmers along the road. That sharpened his trader's eye; now he can tell an animal...
...most singular and striking novels (TIME, June 24, 1946), seems to have written this psycho-thriller with his left foot. A khamseen howls for days in Cairo, wearing tempers thin as the hot, gritty sand seeps through the doors and windows of the Pension Malika Farida. On the fifth morning of the storm, Adela Manasse, wife of the pension's proprietor, is found dead in her tub, naked and smiling a "kindly" smile. How did she die and why did she smile? Original Sin explores this problem amid swirls of windblown sand and snarls of plot typical of Cosmopolitan...
Developments later proved that the 406 sewage potions were combining to form a miraculous elixir. A love-sick Cambridge maiden unrequited in her passion drank a fifth of iodine and then flung herself into the Charles River to wind things...