Word: fives
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that June day five years ago, peace had seemed simply a problem of lashing shell fire, the stutter of machine guns, a man named Hitler and a man named Tojo. This June, children played on the half-buried landing craft. But peace seemed more elusive and infinitely more baffling, a matter of hard-held purpose in the face of provocation, hard-built strength in the face of shadowy threat...
...that the D.P. behavior record was better than that of the U.S. occupation forces. New York's Kenneth B. Keating declared: "They are the most fervid anti-Communists I have ever encountered." To exclude any possible subversives, "there has been set up a truly formidable labyrinth of five screening agencies through which these people must go." Added Kentucky's Frank L. Chelf: "Out of the 200 D.P. camps personally visited...we found only one D.P. in jail...He had slapped his mother...
...Five million dollars from John D. Rockefeller, Jr. will go toward meeting the $20,000,000 needs of the Business School. President Conant announced Thursday night...
...Harvard's five entries (Yale has 19), a first place is fairly unlikely. Freshman Bill Geick (broad jump), Charlie Durakis (high hurdles), and Dick Weiskopf (100), and varsity sprinter Harvey Thayer (220) are all number three in their events on the form chart, and John Cogan, the Crimson's other varsity representative, is number four in the two mile...
...this highly contrived excuse for a series of monologues weren't sleazy enough, Author Wylie has three of the book's five female characters offer their beautiful bodies to Character Wylie in the course of one feverish weekend, which is the time limit of the action. It is significant that Character Wylie rejects these offers in order to have more chance to talk...