Word: fifth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Three elections in two months were one too many for the Guatemalans. Only 56,000 (one-fifth of those who voted in the presidential elections) turned out to choose members for a constituyente (constitutional convention) which will draft a new constitution for the country. Some Guatemalans had no idea what a constituyente was. Besides, even under the tyrannical rule of Dictator Jorge Ubico, they had had a constitution-one "so beautiful that it would make you weep." They felt that what they needed was a president who would treat them right. Most Guatemalans (even the distrustful Indians who form...
...total of 87 points, while Bill Jones of Company C, and Fred Donahoe from Lowell run second and third with 59 and 58 points scored, respectively. Wally Baker, a Standish man, holds fourth place, having piled up a total of 54, and Don Schacht of F-G is fifth, with 52 points...
...team and a lay up in the closing seconds by Bob Moran tied the count at 43-all. A pair of baskets by Johnson and Noble for the Crimson was not quite enough to top the Jumbos' overtime score of seven points, and the Stahlmen went down to their fifth straight defeat...
With three minutes yet to play, a fifth personal foul meant the loss of Jack Wallace to the cause of the Crimson. The absence of Wallace, key man in the defense, hurt the team's effectiveness no little, as Harvard had showed its best form of the season, out playing the victors through the better part of the game...
Married. Thomas Austin Yawkey, 41, Detroit-born millionaire-owner of the Boston Red Sox; and Jean Hiller, 34, onetime Saks Fifth Avenue model; six weeks after he was divorced by Elise Sparrow Yawkey, ex-cover girl; both for the second time; in Georgetown...