Word: fifth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...varsity basketball team, after suppressing an early Tufts threat, coasted to a 75-66 victory last night at the IAB, its fifth against one loss. The Crimson, dominating both backboards, out-scrapped the Jumbos, who never led after the 5:15 mark...
...victory gives the varsity a 4-1 record, losing only to Wesleyan. The game was Northeastern's fifth, and the fifth to be decided by three points or less...
Answering blasts came from the Catholic press. "Protestant misrepresentatives like Bishop Pike," said the Catholic News, newspaper of the Archdiocese of New York, differ from the Ku Klux Klan "only in degree." The Brooklyn Tablet, another diocesan paper, said it would be "the Fifth Essence of Arrogance-the kind that foretells madness," for the U.S. to allow other nations to believe that Americans want to encourage a slowdown of other peoples' population growth...
Mickey Rooney celebrated the first wedding anniversary of his fifth marriage, with a fifth. Instead of rolling on home to sleep it off, he kept another date, showed up for a guest appearance on the Jack Paar Show, now visiting Hollywood. Jack, amiably bringing to mind Mickey's previous four marriages, asked: "What was Ava Gardner really like?" Replied Mickey: "Well, Mr. Paar, may I say this, she is more woman than you will ever know...
...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...