Word: fifth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Along Fifth Avenue the crowds were thick-not as thick as they had been for Generals Eisenhower and Wainwright and for Admiral Nimitz, but good, sizable, cheering, confetti-throwing crowds...
...Yard in Brooklyn lay the spanking new carrier Franklin D. Roosevelt, ready for a presidential commissioning. Across Manhattan, in the brackish waters of the Hudson, an impressive fraction of the U.S. fleet rode at anchor, ready for a presidential review. There would be a parade for Harry Truman up Fifth Avenue, past the flags and the glittering shop windows. He would make a speech before hundreds of thousands on an open meadow in Central Park...
...result of a threee-way tie for fifth place in the elections held October 25, the Lowell House Committee will include seven new members instead of the proposed five, bringing the total of committeemen...
...Everybody told me I didn't have a chance of election. I didn't try to appeal to specific economic and racial groups, but I told the voters I would just work for an honest and efficiently managed school system." He came in fifth out of six in a proportional representation race that was featured by the multiplicity of viewpoints and candidates...
...from the University of Louvain, got top marks from Woman's Home Companion readers in a poll of the living Americans they most admired. Runners-up, in order: President Harry S. Truman, Columnist Eleanor Roosevelt, General Douglas MacArthur, ex-President Herbert Hoover and Motorman Henry Ford (tied for fifth place), ex-Secretary of State Cordell Hull, Congresswoman Clare Boothe Luce, Crooner Bing Crosby and Comedian Bob Hope (also tied...