Word: fifths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fourth Republic and the return to power of Charles de Gaulle. The occasion: with full pomp and calculated circumstance, De Gaulle has come to the Place de la Republique to present officially to the French people the proposed new constitution that would make him the super-President of the Fifth Republic. The general stands on a crimson dais before a 150-ft. gilded "V" draped in the French Tricolor...
Milton lived through a repressed childhood, rebelling vainly under a luxuriance of shoulder-length curls, which his mother finally cut during his fifth year. The older brothers were impressed, in rotating succession, as Milton's nursemaids, a boring duty that Dwight relieved by rocking Milton's cradle with one foot while absorbed in a book. Earl, 19 months older than Milton, was held out of school for a year so that little Milton could enjoy his protective custody...
...McClellan committee. For the next two days Teamsters' Organizer Baker answered questions while the heat from overhead television lamps sent sweat from his pomaded hair down his neck into a wilted white collar that flapped outside his tentlike coat. His lawyers had urged him to take the Fifth Amendment. But Baker decided to clown his way through a performance aimed at concealing a grimly important fact: Barney Baker is just the sort of specimen used by his friend and employer, Teamsters' President James Hoffa, to control the nation's biggest, most predatory union...
...dominate, even in the physical sense, by the employment of the mass and bulk and the arrogance of towers commanding the landscape-less to spy out the political enemy than to cow the underlings. The lacy frivolity of St. Patrick's cows nobody on [Manhattan's] Fifth Avenue today, and the view of it from atop Rockefeller Center suggests nothing so much as an outsized Victorian toy anchored in the heart of modern commerce...
Taxes & Tourists. With many former German shipyards now in Communist territory, West Germany still ranks only tenth in world tonnage, v. fifth before the war. But the fact that it has climbed even that high is remarkable, because World War II wiped out the German merchant marine. Ninety-seven percent of Germany's total tonnage was sunk or captured, the rest confiscated. Scraping together what slim funds were available, German shipbuilders started in 1949 to rebuild their fleet. To help them along, the government decreed that money invested in merchant ships could be deducted from income...