Word: fifths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Breathless, France awaited the next act of the first major scandal to be tried in De Gaulle's Fifth Republic...
Fortnight ago, as Baghdad celebrated Army Day with a parade featuring endless gibes at "Western imperialism," Kassem promoted himself to the highest rank" in the Iraqi army (major general) and announced the formation of a new Baghdad garrison unit-the "Fifth Division," officered by men hand-picked for loyalty to the regime. Having thus assured him self of physical control of the capital, Kassem last week moved against two of the Communist-front organizations that have been keeping Baghdad in turmoil...
Fleming and Ellis played as advertised against the Cincinnati Royals, but Baylor sat adamantly on the bench in street clothes, watched as the Lakers dropped their fifth straight game. At game's end a little white boy expressed disappointment that Elgin had not played. Said Baylor: "Son, I'm a little disappointed myself...
...never stepped forward. Robert Rich was a pseudonym, masking one of about 150 Hollywood writers (plus an estimated 75 actors, producers, musicians) blacklisted by the industry since 1947 as suspected Communists or fellow travelers. The case was particularly embarrassing because the Motion Picture Academy had barred any Communist or Fifth Amendment pleader from Oscar competition. Last week both the Communist rule and the mystery of Rich's identity were suddenly rescripted...
...finally flushed Trumbo was a vote by the academy two days earlier to drop the anti-Communist rule as "unworkable and impractical.'' Main reason: virtually certain Oscar nomination this year of The Defiant Ones. One of its coauthors was Nathan E. Douglas, who in 1953 pleaded the Fifth under his legal name of Ned Young during a House hearing. While Douglas-Young was thus ineligible for an Oscar. Co-Author Harold Jacob Smith had no such record. After a heated debate, the academy voted to leave blacklisting solely to producers: "The proper functioning of the academy is only...