Word: fifth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Before the landing at Nettuno, Lang had spent long weeks with the Fifth Army fighters scrabbling their way foot by foot through the mountains to Cassino. ("By his cheerful sharing of all dangers and hardships he has come to be considered a member of the 'All-American' Division," Commanding General M. B. Ridgway wrote.) And true to form, in the first attack from the beachhead below Rome, dawn found Lang being spattered with mud from exploding German shells right up in the very front lines...
...over the Dominion, thirsty Canadians found liquor-store shelves bare, bootleggers' prices sky-high (in some instances, $15 for a fifth of Scotch). Result: a demand for substitutes. One of the most popular: a highly scented, highly alcoholic, highly poisonous (if swallowed) skin lotion called lilac water...
...Forces Major James ("Jimmy") Stewart, on his fifth bombing raid over Europe, wore his new gold oak leaves...
Died. Cathleen Vanderbilt Arostegui, 39, socialite fifth-generation descendant of the legendary Commodore; of a kidney ailment, in Havana, Cuba. In 1924 Mrs. Arostegui shared with her half sister Gloria Vanderbilt (now Mrs. Pasquale di Cicco) the bulk of an estimated $7,000,000 estate...
...include unprintable language, for the great U.S. contributions to invective and bawdry are gravely slighted. The DAE's scholarly scope is enormous, and Editor Craigie recognizes the role of plain people in making speech. But in many vital respects Henry Louis Mencken, now at work on his fifth edition of The American Language, can still show the way to the professors...