Word: fifth
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Rene Lalique's highly specialized talent brought him exaggerated fame on two continents. Even the highroad between Fifth Avenue and the rue de la Paix was Lalique-paved, in part: his most triumphant commission was the decoration of the S.S. Normandie's main dining room...
...ashamed to go home the day he flunked in fifth-grade Tolerance, and again on the day his model crashed into the airport during an eighth-grade flight exam. But it was not until he took his post-Common Learnings aptitude test that he really became troubled: the test unmistakably marked machine-minded Peter as a potential teacher of economics...
...chancel of a little church in the Alpine village of Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy. Only a few hours before, Pastor Martin Niem&2461ler, leader of Germany's Confessional Church-and one of Christianity's most effective anti-Nazi weapons-had been liberated by the U.S. Fifth Army. His first public act after eight years of imprisonment was to conduct a religious service, based on a text he had long since chosen for this moment...
...fifth year, the Gestapo relaxed a bit, locked him up with three Catholic priests. Last December he was permitted to hold weekly services at Dachau. During his entire imprisonment, he said, the guards treated him "correctly"-but "I can't say why I was allowed to survive." One likely reason: an ex-U-boat commander in World War I, Niem&2461ler was known to Germans as a good German...
Erich Maria Remarque, 47, popular recorder of World War I's German disillusionment (All Quiet on the Western Front), faced the end of World War II in better spirits. Writing his fifth novel in Manhattan while awaiting his final U.S. citizenship papers, he said: "I am no more German. Even when I dream, it is about America, and when I swear ... it is American...