Word: fifths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Paris last week 74-year-old Edouard Daladier, last survivor of the "men of Munich," bitterly ended his 40-year career in French politics. Rather than face certain defeat, Radical Socialist Daladier resigned as mayor of Avignon, abandoned his candidacy for a seat in the Fifth Republic's first National Assembly. "In all France." he snapped, "a new right wing, aggressive and hidebound, triumphs by covering itself with the name and prestige of General de Gaulle...
...these days will audition any subadolescent, and with good reason: teen-agers account for the bulk of German record buying. Mourns Munich Disk Jockey Werner Götze, a ripe 33: "With their clannish addiction to dress, slang and beat, they have become Germany's new, powerful, cultural fifth column, whose god is Elvis Presley, whose idols are their own stars, and whose encyclopedia is the comics...
...diminutive Ravenel finished sixth in total offense with 506 yards gained, fifth in passing with 27 completions in 72 attempts, and sixth in scoring with 26 points. Boulris ran for 364 yards in 89 carries to rank fourth in rushing, stood fifth in punting wth a 35.1 yard average, and tallied 30 points to place fifth in scoring...
Last week the Political Committee of the United Nations began discussion of "the Cyprus problem." This is the fifth straight year that the matter has come before the UN; and it would be difficult to find any real progress achieved in all this time. Among the many knotty colonial problems begging for some kind of solution today, Cyprus is certainly one of the most insoluble...
...Britain called a conference with the aim of improving, in some fashion, this rapidly worsening situation. She invited Greece and herself--and, most important, Turkey. Turkey, one could say, has a legitimate interest in Cyprus, since the island lies within sight of her southeastern shore and since one-fifth of the Cypriot populace is Turkish; but the government in Ankara had, to this point, been quite nonchalant about the whole affair. Confronting Greece with Turkey was like waving a red flag in front of a bull. In no time at all the struggle for Cyprus had a third participant...