Word: fiftysix
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...disproportionate number of Negroes, the problem also involves race. Where money and medical care are available, infant mortality drops far below the national average, according to a county-by-county survey released this year by the Department of Health, Education and Welfare's Children's Bureau. Fiftysix, or less than 2% of all the counties studied, HEW pointed out, account for an unusually significant proportion of the nation's infant deaths. Included in the 56 are all but one of the U.S. cities with more than 500,000 population and the country's largest Negro...
...Fiftysix years' anticipation, burning jealousy and feverish curiosity," groused the European edition of the New York Herald Tribune, deserved more than "this peep show," this "cocktail cracker thrown to a hungry lion...