Word: thirds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nine men and three women needed only an hour and 25 minutes of deliberation to judge Citizens Councilman Lauderdale, a building supply dealer, guilty of what the prosecution had called "a diabolical scheme." The jury's proposed sentence: three years in prison, a $500 fine. He was the third of five accused Little Rock bombers to be convicted (another pleaded guilty), with trial of the fifth still to come...
Scarcely a month had gone by since 17-year-old William Buie, fireman third class, was transferred from a harbor-bound oiler to a rolling, seagoing Navy destroyer, and ex-Farm Boy (Mulberry, Fla.) Buie was one seasick bluejacket. One night last week, when his ship, U.S.S. Arnold J. Isbell, was rocking along 60 miles southwest of San Diego, Buie went topside to watch a movie. He was still pretty green around the gills, so he wobbled aft to smoke a cigarette. On the port quarter, he leaned over the side. As he leaned, the ship rolled-and over, into...
...Which the Spanish call the Third Invasion, the first being the Roman, the second the Moorish, and the fourth-and current peaceful one -the American...
...Loyal Opposition and governs itself by the swing of the party pendulum, what kind of alternative choice is there in a doctrinaire and out-of-date party that had won only two general elections in half a century, and had just gone down to defeat for the third time...
...prepared to leave the country, Philip assured his hosts that the Queen herself would be coming out in 1961 to pay a postponed visit. Though the thought was delicately left unspoken, everyone knew that by then Ghana would probably be the Commonwealth's third republic, recognizing Elizabeth, as India and Pakistan do, not as Queen but merely as symbolic head of the Commonwealth...