Word: fourthly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...were themselves chased, caught and captured, not by the British but by the armed brig Convention, in the service of Pennsylvania. They were hauled into the port of Philadelphia, where the admiralty court ordered the vessel sold and the prize money divided one-half to the Pennsylvania seamen, one-fourth to the Pennsylvania treasury and only one-fourth to Gideon Olmstead and friends. During the next 30 years one federal court after another ordered Pennsylvania to hand over the Active prize money to Olmstead, but the state of Pennsylvania doggedly refused to comply...
...three tense days, management all along Bilbao's dirty Nervion River industrial complex waited to see whether, as a result of these harsh moves, the unrest would spread. But the workers were unorganized and without strike funds. On the fourth day the shipyard posted a notice: "As of today, job applications will be considered." Berets in hand, the Basques meekly filed over the long concrete overpass that carried them from their grimy slum homes across the railroad tracks and into the shipyard again. Without yielding an inch, Franco had won, at least for now-even though the inflation...
...ordained a priest. Over the next quarter-century, and especially as head of the North Belgian Province (1938-46), Father Janssens developed a kind of subterranean reputation as a quiet, levelheaded administrator. No one was more surprised than the self-effacing Belgian when in 1946 he became the fourth of his countrymen to head the Jesuits...
...fourth triennial conference of the Inter-Seminary Movement, sponsored by the National Council of Churches at Ohio's Oberlin College, The Netherlands' Dr. Willem A. Visser't Hooft told 500 Protestant theology students to be both "slaves and spokesmen'' of Christianity. Said Dr. Visser't Hooft. general secretary of the World Council of Churches and a minister of The Netherlands Reformed Church: "There is a new search for authority in the world today [and ] insofar as we are slaves and spokesmen, the minister has the same authority as Christ." This authority is "total...
...fourth and final attempt to storm Cassino, 13 divisions of the Fifth and Eighth Armies, backed by overwhelming fire and airpower, smashed into the four German divisions clinging to the shattered defenses. At first the Germans held on, then retired to the north. It was only half a victory: Cassino had fallen, but the German Tenth Army got away...