Word: fifths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more and more hospitals, many in smaller cities. Example: Karen Lee Gordon, from Pana, Ill., went to St. Mary's Hospital in nearby Decatur (est. pop. 75,000) for five operations to correct a complicated no-gullet anomaly. Last week, out of the hospital in time for her fifth birthday, she was eating normally, tasting and swallowing food, for the first time in her life. She even had sausage for breakfast...
...Frederick Altamount Cornwallis Twistleton, fifth Earl of Ickenham, who shoots off the top hat of a London barrister by means of a slingshot loaded with a Brazil nut-thus confirming his title as "England's answer to Annie Oakley...
...member of the audience arose to correct Kirk's estimate of Egyptian literacy, stating that according to U.N. figures, 55 per cent have fifth-grade reading ability, and adding that there had been a 300 per cent increase in building of schools "since the British were taken...
...addition to better training, this nation needs better methods for early identification of student talent. Walker suggested a nation-wide system of pre-college qualifying exams, one in ninth grade and a second in the twelfth. His fifth point called for a change in the attitude toward scholarship held by both students and adults. The educator closed with a plea for more funds to be channeled into education...
...conducted among 20-year-old marriageable girls in twelve cities, that disclosed that their choices for an "ideal" husband, in order of popularity, were 1) Perry Como, 2) William Holden, 3) Rock Hudson. Tied for fourth place were President Eisenhower and Tab Hunter; Elvis Presley tied Tony Curtis for fifth. Classed together as good No. 6 husbands: Marlon Brando, Jeff Chandler, James Dean, Senator John F. Kennedy, Jerry Lewis, Vice President Nixon. This sort of "romantic cult" nonsense, concluded Jesuit Cervantes, is the basic cause for the weakening fabric of U.S. family life...