Word: fives
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...conch-shell horns and a bell. They barricaded the doors of the church with stones. When the priest of an adjoining parish, fearing that Affrico had gone too long without the sacraments, came up the mountain to say a Mass, the villagers took down the stones temporarily, but only five people attended...
Half a Million Kilowatts. In 1953, when the first generators are to be installed, the Paulo Afonso plant will produce 120,000 kw. for the five neighboring states of Pernambuco, Alagoas, Paraiba, Sergipe and Baia, doubling their present supply. When all nine of the planned generators are in operation, the output will be approximately i½ times as much as Wilson Dam at Muscle Shoals...
...Five weeks after he touched off a nationwide controversy by charging her with "anti-Catholic" bias, New York's Archbishop Francis Cardinal Spellman dropped in at Hyde Park to see Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt for 45 minutes of friendly conversation and a cooling glass of iced...
Genoese nobility, and in five years in Genoa he painted half the cavaliers and haughty ladies of the houses of Doria, Brignole Sale, Pallavicini, Balbi, Cattaneo, Spinola, Lommelini and Grimaldi...
...Dyer's fondest hopes is that he will be able to offer a job to any of his ballplayers who want to work after they are through in baseball. There is small chance, however, that Stan The Man, with at least five good years of baseball left in him, will ever wind up working for his current boss...