Word: fourth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...flight line at Westover froze into a stunned shock for an instant, then sprang to rescue stations. Screeching fire trucks and ambulances, their red lights blinking eerily, roared away from the flight line; but there was no rescue. In flat disciplined tones, the Westover control tower operator ordered the fourth KC-135, already set for the mission-and, with Cocoa, scheduled for a nonstop round-trip to London-to return to the flight line...
...means ended. And on De Gaulle's other flank-the right one-the balcony generals of the French army were applying unrelenting pressure. Without bothering to consult De Gaulle, military authorities in France last week seized issues of two of the Parisian papers most frequently suppressed under the Fourth Republic-France-Observateur and L'Express...
LOUIS WOLFSON has unloaded one-fourth of his 400,000 shares in American Motors, will sell the rest because he figures stock will not top recent high...
...suave, silver-haired Herbert A. May, 66, senior vice president of Pittsburgh's Westinghouse Air Brake Co., a lustrous host and lover of good clubs, who, according to friends, "spends money beautifully" and carries himself "as if he were posing for his own statue"; she for the fourth time, he for the second; in Woodbine...
...After fifteen hundred years of victories, the Revolution of the fourth century (that of the kings and nobles against the people) had been overthrown by the Revolution of the nineteenth century (that of the people against the kings and nobles). Napoleon was born of this conflagration, and he had allied himself so closely with it that it seemed as if the great convulsion had been nothing more than the labor pains of the birth of one man. He commanded the Revolution as if he were the genius of that terrible element...