Word: fifth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dawn of Disillusion. Modeling is concentrated in a few crowded Manhattan blocks between Fifth and Third Avenues, brightened by the parade of breathless, breath-taking young women dressed at fashion's extreme, hatboxes* in their hands, their feet fleet and flat-heeled, their pancaked faces as blank as a baby's conscience. There are about 1,000 professional photographic models active in New York (including 25 men, 25 children and several dogs...
...threatening suicide from a locked hotel room which she had fortified with a large supply of sleeping pills and a bottle of whisky, Whodunit Authoress Craig (Home Sweet Homicide) Rice, 41, had an explanation for the cops: it was all just a plot twist to win back her estranged fifth husband, Henry W. De Mott Jr., 29, whom she was suing for divorce. "It was a foolish thing to do," she admitted, "but sounded like a good idea at the time...
Hotel. They were there to elect a new national chairman, hand-picked by Harry Truman: smooth, 46-year-old William M. Boyle Jr., a veteran Kansas City politico. And at Boyle's insistence, they were there to expel some fifth columnists from the Party of the People...
...Francisco River is South America's fifth longest;* for more than 1 ,000 miles it winds northward from the quartz-bearing uplands of Minas Gerais through the arid, scrub-covered backlands of Brazil's northeastern bulge. Then, suddenly, it hurls itself 275 feet down a jagged granite precipice in the spectacular Paulo Afonso Falls...
...Hatfields and McCoys of baseball were at it again; for the fifth time in nine years, the St. Louis Cardinals and the Brooklyn Dodgers were in a slambang fight for the National League pennant. The hopes of the other six clubs were as dead as Abner Doubleday's grandfather...