Word: fifths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fifth-grade geography class, ten-year-old John Mele wrote in his notebook: "Where along the Atlantic Coastal Plain can oysters be found?" In a seventh-grade history class, twelve-year-old Andrea Gagliardo was studying "The Missionaries in Florida and Louisiana." In an eighth-grade classroom, a boy had written in his spelling book: SKELETON, AMBULANCE, also "What is the definition of fiery...
...already, through the highceilinged, 48-year-old Our Lady of the Angels grammar school in West Side Chicago, many of the 1,200 youngsters were beginning to turn away from books, fidget in their seats, wonder if the 3 p.m. dismissal bell would ever ring. In fifth-grade geography on the second floor, the teacher thought that the room was getting too warm. Said she: 'Why don't some of you boys open the windows?" In fourth-grade arithmetic, a boy blurted: "Sister, I smell smoke." Smoke began to seep under classroom doors, through open transoms. A fire...
...Algeria. After a four-hour Cabinet conference last week, he enplaned for Algeria, his fifth visit to the war-torn territory since taking office. Before leaving, he created the post of Inspector General of National Defense as a niche into which General Raoul Salan, the Algerian commander in chief, could be gracefully moved. Salan's position of power will be diluted into a two-man job. The civilian functions will go to a brilliant civil servant, Paul Delouvrier, 44, the financial head of the European Coal and Steel Community, who recently completed a fact-finding tour of Algeria...
...laggards still concerned with civil war may finally realize that the page of combat has been turned. Now it is the page of progress, civilization and the brotherhood of man." At week's end Premier de Gaulle flew back to France, where his election as President of the Fifth Republic on Dec. 21 became only a formality when his respected friend, 76-year-old President Rene Coty, announced that he would...
Under Luís Batlle Berres, 61 (Batlle y Ordóñez' nephew), Uruguayans in the past eleven years got the real bill for Utopia. The state ballooned into an octopus, employed a fifth of the nation's force, with offices staffed so heavily that bureaucrats had to come early to get seats...