Word: fifth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most House basketball games in the last few days have been won by slender one, two, or three point margins. Dudley changed that trend yesterday afternoon by burying Eliot with a cannonade of 60 points against the Elephants' 20. The victory was the fifth in a row for Coach Bob Waite's commuters...
...expressed the belief that less than one fifth of his countrymen supported Tito, even with his new nationalistic anti-Cominform policy. Despite the recent rift between Tito and Stalin, he hoped that the United States would not be duped into supporting the Tito regime...
...almost three years, twelve-year-old Martin had been living in hospitals or convalescent homes. He is back home now in the fifth-floor, $44-a-month Manhattan walk-up apartment with his mother & father, grandmother, younger sister and older brother. Martin still suffers from rheumatic heart disease (caused by rheumatic fever), is still bedfast, still needs the kind of medical care that hospitals give. He is getting that kind of care now at home...
Although only the second and fifth of King Henry's wives* actually went from the bed to the block, English folklore (and the cinema) have stressed the Bluebearded side of his life. But history, with a surer stress on the important, credits Henry with a stroke more momentous than any ever struck by his executioners: he severed the Church in England from the Church of Rome...
...Fifth, the Council could save endless parliamentary peregrinations if it tightened up and clarified its procedure rules. The president recommended this move last Spring...