Word: fifth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When he got a call one day last week that his 94-year-old mother was gravely ill, Harry Truman hopped into the presidential plane and flew to her home in Grandview, Mo. It was his fifth visit with her since she had broken her hip in a fall last February. This week, as she wavered, he was at her side...
...built no hospitals, made no philanthropic gestures. He hated Italians and did his best to make life miserable for them, even though they comprised 65% of Hoboken voters. Under his rule Hoboken taxes went skyhigh. Population fell off by a fifth; building almost ceased...
...afternoon of the fifth day, when two power-company linemen found him, he simply lay still and said, "Hello." They lifted the car off his mangled hand, wrapped him in their coats, dipped a canvas bucket into the creek and put its rough, wet edge to his lips. At the hospital in Oakland a doctor said he believed that the hand would not have to be amputated-just some fingers...
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 2 (Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, Dimitri Mitropoulos conducting; Columbia, 10 sides). A slightly vapid piece of music, but with vague whisperings of the strivings and yearnings which burst out in the composer's Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Symphonies. Performance: fair...
...foggy afternoon in London, ten-year-old Sonia was lured into a vacant house, attacked, and choked to death. So begins Prelude to a Certain Midnight, the fifth novel by British Novelist Gerald Kersh (Sergeant Nelson of the Guards, Faces in a Dusty Picture). For a few pages Kersh fiddles around the psychological fringes of the crime, then he runs through a roster of gaudy suspects...