Word: fives
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dear Gussie, we must fall flat on our faces five times. Have been." (That's too bad. I'll see you later...
...told police nothing. A slight, boyish-looking man with wavy hair, he had met Rita Morel, in a Quebec arsenal during the war. Their marriage became a long series of quarrels. Last spring Guay began going with a pretty young nightclub waitress named Marie-Ange Robitaille. Rita and her five-year-old daughter moved to her mother's home...
Three weeks ago 23-year-old Thérèse Bourgault, for five years unable to walk without crutches, stood before Robert. "You will be cured," he pronounced, and witnesses swore that she walked away without crutches. Not all supplicants found such response. With crowds on hand from 8 a.m. till midnight, the four children had to work in shifts, were often irritable...
...less a tradition is Winchester's almost complete rule by the boys themselves; the head of the school government, always one of the "scholars," has five or six assistants in each of the ten dormitories. Under this system, which was started by the boys themselves to fill a vacuum left by a lax faculty some 250 years ago, Winchester's cloistered walls seldom echo to serious trouble. Says Headmaster Oakeshott: "The boys seem to accept the proposition that there are certain things which are just not done, not from a fear of punishment, but from a desire...
Though Coffman plans no radical departures from the tried & true methods of legal education, his five-man faculty will "update the students on the new kinds of law which have become important-administrative law, taxation and labor law." Says he: "We believe in the blocking and tackling school of education-good fundamental training . . . We want to turn out men who will become leaders...