Word: fifth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...whispering campaigns or press pinpricks may at length turn out to be dangerous. The Russians didn't do very much to create confidence; that seems not to be in their line, and some admit it, adding that other countries' openness was punished by fifth columns...
Somewhat less elated and carefree were the men who held the fate of nearly a fifth of mankind in their hands. On the eve of the national anniversary they were seated around a banqueting table in Chungking. Guest of honor was Mao Tse-tung, the Communist leader from Yenan, a man with destiny written in his strong face. Opposite him sat one of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's chief negotiators, shrewd General Chang Chih-chung. For 45 seesawing days the two men, backed by their aides, had pitted plan against plan to heal the breach between Communist China...
...Fifth columnists had infiltrated the enemy's ranks before the British struck, assuring the arrest of some of the most notorious dealers, including the heads of the silk-stocking racket and the jewelry trust. A cigaret girl, who tucked most of her merchandise in her underwear, demanded immediate release because she had a date with...
...Cornelius Vanderbilt, Indian summering at Newport, missed some excitement in her Fifth Avenue Manhattan mansion. A fire started in a bedroom wall plug, ran along a baseboard, up the draperies of a dressing table, ruined a rug and a few fine feathers. Cornelius Jr. sounded the alarm...
Married. Margaret Rutherford, 53, the late Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt's daughter who became ballerina, cultist (Oom the Omnipotent), husband collector; and Prince Charles Michael Joachim Napoleon Murat, 53, great-grandnephew of Napoleon Bonaparte; she for the fifth time (once before to Murat), he for the second (she was also his first); in Manhattan...