Word: fives
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Democratic 81st Congress, he had never had an ideological majority. Of the 24 major measures he asked for in January, Congress in five months had enacted only one-extension of rent control...
...Suite. A year ago in Cannes, Elsa Maxwell introduced Rita Hayworth (ne´e Cansino in New York) to Prince Aly Khan, a demigod to five million Moslems of the Ismaili sect, and heir to one of the biggest fortunes in the world.* Though Rita was still the wife of onetime Wonder Boy Orson Welles, and Aly had not yet severed his marital tie with British-born Joan Yarde-Buller (exwife of Brewing Heir Thomas Loel Guinness), the lovers showed all the symptoms of sophomores in the throes of their first passion...
Then the victorious Turks met the Italians. With five minutes to play and the score tied, Italy's outside right passed to his center forward who passed to the inside left who kicked a goal. The Turks claimed the inside left was offside. The Greek referee failed to allow the Turkish objection and declared Italy the winner...
...Five minutes before the opening gavel at the Foreign Ministers' conference in Paris, Konrad Adenauer, president of Germany's constitutional assembly, rose up in Bonn's Pedagogical Institute and intoned: "Today the new Germany arises." One by one the delegates of eleven Western German states stepped up and signed Western Germany's new democratic constitution (TIME, May 16). Even the Bavarians, who had hoped for more autonomy, less federal control, relented and grudgingly joined the Western German fold...
...lineup for the season was Row, Kathn Smith, number two ear Henry Gardiner, three Ronald Dick, four, William P. Wodd, five, Walter Aikman, six, Erie Osborne, seven Mike Moras, stroke Oliver Scholle, and coxswain, Joshus Twilly