Word: fifth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fifth forum, discussing the question, "How Should We Reorganize Our Government?" will be held next Friday...
...subject he'd sweated through. Actually, it hadn't been too bad. Not bad at all. In the beginning, hitting the books at night had proved difficult, and Vag had found himself headed for Boston every other night in the first few weeks of the term. The nightly fifth-of-whiskey-and-a-woman routine gets ingrained after three years. But now, quite without any conscious plan, he was working, working hard, for the first time in his life...
...Dignity. To reach his automobile, Gromyko passed through a queue of nylon seekers in front of the grey Soviet Consulate on East 61st Street. (Gromyko knows that Americans talk about nylons much more than about the atomic bomb.) The Cadillac turned into the dignified but flabby reaches of Fifth Avenue as matrons, becalmed by $3 luncheons, heaved out into the 4 o'clock sunshine. At Tiffany's or Cartier's, where a brooch might cost almost as much as a light tank, men & women paused to glance at displays with a diluted, good-natured envy...
...Communists look upon democracy as a bourgeois fraud. ... A preference for dictatorship infests their internal organization. . . . The Labor Party has nothing to fear from competition under democratic rules, but the same party which is a negligible opponent in open contest can be a serious menace as a fifth column working from within...
...Western Hemisphere will still be the easiest place to get to. Most ship lines now have thousands on their waiting lists. By fall, however, three liners of the Moore-McCormack "Good Neighbor" Fleet would be back on South American runs. And the Grace Line, which will launch the fifth of nine new 52-passenger "Santas" this week, would have regular runs to South America by fall...