Word: fifth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plenty of doubt about Harry Truman's political shrewdness in national politics, but at the congressional district level-and in his own Missouri stamping grounds-he had proved that he could still figure out where the power lay. His personally picked candidate for Congress in Missouri's Fifth District, a political novice named Enos Axtell, scored a decisive victory in the Democratic primary over Princeton-bred Representative Roger Slaughter, who had hacked away mercilessly at the Truman program in Congress...
...place first or second in the first four classes of competition will receive silver or bronze medals. Winners in the fifth and sixth classes, the compromise and wherry classes, will be awarded oak plaques...
Curley started on the mound for Dudley but lacked his usual stuff as Dunster tallied six times in the first four frames. Marty Greeley replaced him in the fifth and went on to receive credit for the win. Landon Clay went all the way for the Funsters and pitched well, allowing few earned runs and becoming the victim of numerous infield hits and misplays by his teammates...
...millions in India. UNRRA does not operate in India, and relief officials in Washington have satisfied themselves that they have adequate reasons for refusing to sell to India the wheat she has offered to pay for in British pounds sterling. On the threshold of nationhood, her population totalling one-fifth of the people of the world, India is repeatedly enduring conditions of hunger and famine...
Another outsider, Dancer Fred Astaire's 7-to-1 Triplicate, last week took the $79,000 winner's purse in the Hollywood Gold Cup Handicap. The two favorites in the race belonged to Astaire's old employer, M.G.M.'s Mayer; they ran second and fifth...