Word: fives
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...noon sharp one day this week a lumbering C-82, also known as the "Flying Boxcar," flew into Berlin's Tempelhof airfield, carrying five tons of steel wool and textiles. The American crew had some coffee, got a weather briefing for the return flight to Wiesbaden. Exactly a year before, the first wave of C-47s ("Gooney birds," to U.S. airmen) .had flown a cargo of milk, flour and medicine into Tempelhof. Since then, in 235,314 flights, the airlift had carried 1,943,655.9 tons of supplies into besieged Berlin...
...Five times daily, Hafiz and Bashir spread their prayer mats and, facing toward Mecca, go solemnly through the Moslem prayer ritual. "Sometimes," says Bashir, "we get awfully homesick; then we work very hard and pray to forget...
...Liberal Party, became its leader after Venizelos' death. Under Sophoulis' vacillating hand, it rapidly declined. Through Greece's coups d'état and minor revolutions, Sophoulis had usually tried to stick close to the middle of the road. He was an antiroyalist but he served five Greek kings; he was an anti-Communist but he was frequently supported by the Communists in Parliament; he was an anti-Fascist but during the Metaxas dictatorship (1936-41) he simply lived in retirement. After World War II, he advocated collaboration with the Communist rebels, proclaimed an amnesty when...
Last Sunday the young prince, accompanied by his two sisters, left the family pew at Rome's quiet little Church of St. Girolamo. Pierino appeared, a pistol in his outstretched hand. "You die!" he shouted, and fired five times. The prince drew his own pistol, but before he could aim he slumped backward...
...report, compiled over five years at a cost of ?200,000, contained some startling specific proposals which were probably less important than its broad analysis of population prospects. In its analysis, the report punches holes in two myths, one old, one new. The prewar myth was that Britain's birth rate would continue to decline, causing a drastic drop in Britain's population. The postwar myth was that Britain's tight balance of payments position required a drastic reduction of population by emigration ("With world supremacy gone, 40,000,000 people can't live on this...