Word: fifth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trial for treason dragged into its fifth week, theatrical, horse-faced Mildred ("Axis Sally") Gillars finally got to the witness stand herself in Washington's Federal District Court. Before a jury of five women and seven men, she slipped into the role of a foolish gentlewoman as though it were a loose kimono, got a handkerchief within easy dabbing distance of her eyes, and set out to explain that she had been true to the red, white & blue all the time...
Charley Gray closed the door of his $30,000 house in Sycamore Park, Conn, and eased himself into the Buick beside his wife. On this rainy spring morning in 1947, as she did every weekday morning, Nancy was driving him to catch the 8:30 train to his Fifth Avenue bank job in midtown Manhattan. To Charley, this always seemed the friendliest time of the day. He noticed how Nancy's hair curled below the edges of her green hat and he realized gratefully that he could talk to her about the children, or the household budget...
Before the war, the Netherlands East Indies supplied one-fifth of Holland's national wealth. Although the Dutch had ruled benevolently and were generally respected by the natives, the victory of Japanese troops in 1942 had a profound effect on the nationalist movement. Full of promises, the conquerors set up a puppet government of nationalist leaders. Collaborators soon found the promises worthless, but in 1945 they did not regret their move. The Japanese surrender caught British and Dutch troops unprepared. To keep order in the Islands, the Allies were forced to recognize existing Republican sovereignty in Java and Sumatra...
...Saturday night in the second annual Heptagonal Games which saw nine meet records fall as Army emerged on top of the 10 team heap with 5 1/2 first places and 54 5/6 points. Yale came in second with 44 points, Cornell third with 27, Princeton fourth with 20, Pennsylvania fifth with 16, and Harvard sixth with...
Other Harvard men who placed were: Pat McCormick who arrived fifth in the 45-yard hurdles; Andrew Lockett tied with Andrew Kirk of Penn for fifth in the pole vault at 12 feet, 6 inches; Robert Forsyth finished third in the 35-pound weight throw with a 53 feet, 11 1/2 inch toss; and Howard Reed placed fourth with a heave of 51 feet 5 7/8 inches; Donald Trimble finished fifth in the shotput with a throw of 48 feet, 9 inches; David Carter jumped 22 feet, 6 inches to place third in the broad jump; and John Harrigan...