Word: fourth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...royal "Black Guard" beat a tattoo and blared fanfares. Eleven men filed through the palace courtyard, up a marble staircase and into an ornate chamber reeking of incense. There, seated on his gilt and brocaded throne, King Mohammed V last week welcomed the members of Morocco's fourth government in less than three years of independence...
...another year, Eleanor Roosevelt was the living woman most admired by the nation, as sounded out by Pollster George Gallup. Runner-ups to Mrs. Roosevelt (a ten-time winner in the poll), this year as well as last, were Queen Elizabeth and Clare Boothe Luce. In fourth place: Mamie Eisenhower, sixth in popularity last year. For the seventh time, the pollees ranked President Eisenhower as the most admired living man, trailed by Sir Winston Churchill, Dr. Albert Schweitzer, Evangelist Billy Graham and Harry Truman, who slipped from last year's third spot. Newcomers to this year's list...
Partly responsible for U.S. language lacks, Conant charged, are two sorts of offenders: school boards which justify omission of third-and fourth-year language courses from high school curricula on the grounds that few students apply, and colleges, whose two-year language admission requirements give respectability to a brief, pointless period of study. "A two-year requirement is worse than none," said Conant. "If there is to be a requirement, it should mean mastery." He continued: "The lip service paid to foreign languages in the high school, is, I am afraid, a direct reflection of lip service paid...
High men for Minneapolis were Elgin Baylor with 28 points and Dick Garmaker who scored 24 before fouling out in the fourth period. It was the Lakers' fifth straight triumph...
...tonight's game, the Crimson will face a team which features a 6 ft., 8 in pivot man who can score as well as rebound. He is captain Al Poulsen, who is averaging 13 points a game and who last year ranked fourth in the league in rebounding...