Word: five
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...office did make that first voyage with my grandfather, but perhaps it came later. F.H. made three round trips to Denmark and back after he settled in Michigan, once to find a likely bride, Christine Sandberg, then to bring her to the U.S., and finally, after their five children were born, to give his wife one last look at home. One of the hazy bits in his story is how, before he emigrated, he knew of a tiny, unincorporated farm hamlet called Ellsworth (after Colonel Elmer Ephraim Ellsworth, the first Union officer killed in the Civil War). There were...
...billion. While disagreeing with some items on the congressional hit list, even Defense Secretary Dick Cheney agreed that some reductions were needed. He had just completed a strategic review and was about to propose cutting 10% from the Pentagon budget and 25% from its manpower over the next five years...
...commission appointed by President F.W. de Klerk leveled a stinging indictment last week: 30 police officers had acted illegally when they fired into a crowd of black protesters last March, killing five people and wounding 200. The direct cause of the shootings was a lack of discipline and control over the ranks, said the report, and the commission recommended that the officers be prosecuted. In another memorandum, prominent church leaders charged that police helped stir up the recent black rampages in the townships around Johannesburg that left more than 500 people dead...
...might acquire nuclear weapons, a danger that the Israelis offered as the justification for their 1981 air raid on an Iraqi nuclear plant. It is worth emphasizing, though, that Iraq does not now have a nuclear weapon. Western intelligence agencies estimate that Saddam could build one in something like five years. A nuclear-armed Iraq is a scary possibility, but is it beyond the mind of man to try negotiating the creation of an internationally inspected nuclear-free zone throughout the Middle East? If so, and if the Israelis insist on their right to be the only nuclear power...
...Saudi Arabia the pool members weren't delivered to the area until at least five days after the U.S. deployment began. Pentagon "escorts" sat in on interviews. The pool had to abide by a long list of rules, including a ban (later rescinded) on using the name and hometown of any soldier interviewed...