Word: fifths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fifth time since Dwight Eisenhower took office in 1953, the U.S. Congress last week tried to override a presidential veto-and for the fifth time it failed. Last week's Senate vote of 55-40, nine short of the two-thirds majority needed to override, came on the $1,375,000,000 housing bill, which Ike had vetoed in his battle to keep the nation's budget in balance. The issue was forced by the Senate's Democratic liberals, desperately anxious to get out from under the President's firm fiscal thumb. In insisting...
More than a quarter of the ministers doubt that necessary marks of the true church are the preaching of the Gospel and the administration of the sacraments, while less than a fifth of the laymen express similar doubts...
...vital issues in the steel strike are the twin threats of inflation and foreign competition, which have stiffened the stance of management toward the steelworkers' bid for higher wages. By last week, the fifth week of idleness for the biggest U.S. industry, these broad matters revolved around a little-known section of the steel contract that has brought negotiations to a virtual standstill. The section: the past-practices clause. Written into contracts since 1947, the clause jealously protects local working practices or customs that have existed regularly over a long period, in effect provides that...
WHEN Rockefeller turns a profit, he gives most of it to some 200 charities. But he likes to live well. He collects paintings (about 100 by Gainsborough, Bonnard, Vlaminck, etc.), houses (a Fifth Avenue duplex, an estate on the Hudson, a 15-room summer home on Fishers Island-a millionaire's retreat 135 miles from New York), cars (a Bentley, a Cadillac, four others). He loves speed, often commutes in his fast 65-ft. aluminum P-T boat to his office in the RCA Building at Rockefeller Center (of which he is chairman). He enjoys muscle-straining outdoor exercise...
...embarrassment to De Gaulle, and in the first months of De Gaulle's reign, relations between the two grew increasingly formal. Even after the Union for the New Republic-the self-proclaimed Gaullist party organized by Soustelle-swept to an overwhelming majority in the Assembly of the Fifth Republic, De Gaulle continued to regard Soustelle as too controversial to have conspicuous power. The premiership went to Gaullist Lawyer Michel Debré, a relative unknown; for Soustelle there was an agglomeration of odd jobs-including the Sahara. Mockingly, some Frenchmen dubbed Soustelle "the Minister of the Future," and when...