Word: fifth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...clock each weekday morning for nearly 14 years, Chicago's political reporters have trooped into the big, green-carpeted office on the fifth floor of City Hall. Big, genial Ed Kelly was there to greet them. He would usually lean back in his chair and start off his press conference with an Irish story. Then the boys would ask a few questions. Usually Ed would ask a few in return. The boss took great pride in his slogan: "I'm not only mayor of Chicago, I'm father...
...ossification of the brain. He has produced an atom bomb and a panty girdle, the vitamin pill, the comic book, the subway gum machine, the soap opera and the revolving door. But in the minds of thousands of New Yorkers all of these achievements pale when compared to the Fifth Avenue...
Irascible as Manhattan's bent and pleated bus-riders often are, they can never hope to match the irascibility of Fifth Avenue's ancient, turtle-blooded drivers and conductors...
...largest increase was in Government, as one-fifth of the men look for courses in that field. Economics added two percent over last year, while the newly formed Social Relations department attracted seven percent of the veteran-heavy group...
...fifth-floor window, a man tossed out a sheet rope, stepped back into the room, and was not seen again. In another window stood a girl in a white nightgown which blazed up suddenly before she jumped. Above her, a man swayed in a panel of flame, rolling his head from side to side. Around him, guests huddled and crawled on ledges to escape deadly gas and smoke, dangled from sheet ropes over fire-belching windows, and leaped for safety nets. Some hit with such force that the nets were torn from firemen's hands. As a girl jumped...