Word: fifth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Eating at the cafeteria is OUT; eating at the Metropolitan Club is IN, but it is inconceivable to refer to it as the Metropolitan instead of The Club. ¶Getting off the elevator at the fifth floor (where the Secretary of State's office is located) is IN; it does not matter if you work there...
...past four years, won yet another legal delay, while simultaneously (and unwittingly) nudging forward the cause of Negro civil rights in the Deep South. Opening its fall term, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to review -and thereby affirmed-last January's far-reaching decision of the Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals: that Goldsby's constitutional rights were denied by "systematic exclusion" of Negroes from the jury that tried...
...police later reconstructed it, one man got out of the car, cut the padlock on the store's outer wicket gate, then picked the lock on the inner door. That done, three more of the gang got out and went into the store with him, while a fifth accomplice put a new padlock on the gate to allay the suspicions of any passing policemen. Inside, the four men forced a safe and swept up a peck of rings, bracelets, watches and necklaces, worth over $110,000. But the night had just begun: in the safe the crooks also found...
Although the Crimson's fifth man, Baldwin, crossed the tape before Dartmouth's fifth runner, the Indians had taken enough key front and middle positions to win by three points for their first victory over the Crimson harriers since...
...York City's most controversial building, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, last week opened its spiral exhibition ramp to the public. A monument to the late philanthropist's vision, even more a temple to its architect, the late Frank Lloyd Wright, this "organic" concrete form looms--almost leers--over Fifth Avenue at 88th Street, provoking speculation that Wright was playing a private "cosmic joke...