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This time she appears as a toughly attractive feature of the Canal Zone who saves the canal locks and her boy friend from a fifth-columnist dynamiting.

From Time Magazine Archive

The jury's weapon was the eight-year-old Smith Alien Registration Act, originally aimed at fifth-columnist aliens.�

From Time Magazine Archive

In Cairo and Alexandria 700 fifth-columnist suspects were clapped into internment camps.

From Time Magazine Archive

He was a sort of spy, a sort of fifth-columnist.

From The Inhabited by Wilson, Richard