Word: fifth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...prayers and the cries came on schedule, then suddenly the door opened and out marched strapping Novice Eshun Sato and 53 colleagues. They told a bitter story. "We novices had to wait hand and foot on the oldtimers," said Sato. "To convey a message or request to a fifth-time priest, I had to speak to a priest who was taking the rites for the second time, who relayed the message on up by rank. I protested to Chief Priest Nakakita, and for this I was beaten up by the oldtimers [he showed scars on his arms], Nakakita gave...
...question Do you believe in life after death?, doubt was more widespread. The U.S., with 68% sure of a hereafter and 19% undecided, ranked fifth...
...joined as sponsors - "the largest Western college league ever organized," cracked one reviewer, "to support anything but athletics." Last week Pacific Spectator began its second year. It had not yet grown to the stature of a Yale, Kenyon or Sewanee Review, but it was at least gaining weight. The fifth quarterly issue went to 8,000 buyers, a gain of 3,000 from the first. To win them (at $3.50 a year), Spectator had turned an appraising gaze on Western writers, from Saroyan to Steinbeck. It had given two score pent-up regional intellectuals an outlet, and had ranged beyond...
Paced by Ed Smith's 17 points, the freshmen had little trouble racking up their fifth win as the shorter, slower Milton quintet scored half its points from the foul line...
...fifth article alleging communism in Harvard, the Chicago Tribune lashed out at visiting lecturer Vera Micheles Dean for "hiding facts" in her regional study course, "The United States and Soviet Russia...