Word: fifth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Another Administration victory was recorded in Alabama's Fifth Congressional District when labor-baiting Representative Joe Starnes, the Dies Committeeman who once proposed to investigate Playwright Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593) as a Communist,* was defeated by State Legislator Albert Rains. The C.I.O.'s Political Action Committee, which had been quietly undermining Starnes in war-booming Gadsden (pop. 36,975) indulged in no loud boasting. Its prime target is lumbering Martin Dies himself, who must fight for his job in Texas' Second District next July...
...Crimson protected their lead to the end. Wallace struck out nine men and was extremely effective when it really counted. After pushing over two runs in the bottom half of the first inning, the best the Camp Thomas men could do was chalk up single tallies in the fifth and eighth...
Again & again, the Emperor's bombers returned. On the ground, fifth columnists who had sabotaged the air-raid warning put lighted flares and rockets to guide them. Within two days Brereton's effective air force was reduced to about two score planes...
...Fifth Inning Rally...
Harvard came back to go ahead in the fifth when George Boston, center fielder at the clean-up position, singled to left, and Lutz followed with a single to right. Art Conlon then advanced them and Jack Falsey sent them both home with a bingle to deep right field...