Word: fifth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Five got through her fighter cover and her wildly crackling antiaircraft fire. Four of them smashed into her. The fifth plane, knocked into the sea, freakishly bounced into her side and exploded, rupturing her skin near the waterline. Flaming gasoline spewed across her hangar deck. One bomb penetrated four decks, wiping out living quarters. Fire swept the forward part of the flight deck...
...fifth compulsory course in the undergraduate's career is one in English Communication required of Sophomores. With mechanics of writing and speech emphasized, the faculty felt that such a course would be better adapted to Sophomores than Freshmen because of the presumably broader range of interests which might be treated in the exercises...
...each collar tab, and four on the black butt of the automatic pistol at his hip. On the side of his helmet was the painted insigne of the armored divisions; on the front, below the stars, was the Third Army's "A"-which, in photographs, looked like a fifth star. On his chest was a quintuple corsage of campaign ribbons; on his left sleeve, five overseas bars and four wound chevrons. He wore two rings on his left hand, one on his right...
...slight figure, wide grin and puckish face-unlike Willie's, his beard was no heavier than peach fuzz-was better known to the Fifth Army than General Mark Clark...
Died. Tom C. Geraghty, 62, veteran scenarist and ex-head of the OWI's Holly wood bureau; in Hollywood. Connected with many a foreign film, he once did a historical picture for Mussolini, was paid off one-fifth in cash, four-fifths in olive...