Word: fourth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Westerners are not so sure. After 18 months in office as independent Ceylon's fourth Prime Minister, Bandaranaike still commands a huge popularity, but he seems to be tugged steadily leftward. A stream of "diplomats" from behind the Iron Curtain have been pouring into Ceylon to offer trade, aid and advice. Little by little Western capital and know-how is being withdrawn, frightened away by increasing talk of nationalization. Unemployment increases steadily (the Trincomalee turnover itself threw 10,000 dock workers out of work...
...leaders, Jared Fitzgerald and Brandy Harrison, came within 1.7 seconds of tying the track record as they both crossed the line at 15:02.4. Crimson runners Jacques LaFrance and Edwin Herrington ran the course in 15:13 and 15:20, placing third and fourth respectively...
...well-thrown block was the key to victory yesterday afternoon as the J.V. football team bowed to Dartmouth, 19 to 12. Late in the fourth quarter the J.V.'s were trailing by a single point when suddenly a gaping hole was opened in the middle of the Crimson line and a Dartmouth back bolted 85 yards straight up the middle for the game-clinching score...
...dinner, held at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, signalled the opening of the Program for Harvard College in the New York metropolitan area. Nearly a fourth of the total $82 million has been received either through contributions or pledges, it was announced last night...
Life in capitalist countries was subject matter for a fourth theme. Usually set in America, these stories claimed that "every honest man is a communist and the rule is in the hands of Wall Street. There is an ever-sharpening class struggle which will reach its climax in the communist world revolution in the capitalist countries...