Word: fours
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...less than four hours the court-martial reached its decision. Tobiansky was stood against a sunbaked mud wall of an old Arab building. He refused a blindfold as he stood at attention facing half a dozen Haganah riflemen. His last words were: "Take care...
...official count four days later gave the government's middle-of-the-road Party of Revolutionary Institutions a sweeping victory. It won all but one of the 147 seats at stake in the Chamber of Deputies. Not even the opposition parties expected much else. For most Mexicans, the election's greatest significance was the proof it offered that their country, after years of mixing blood with ballots, was finally reaching political maturity...
...concrete Central Penitentiary. Cut off from his hair dye and face powder, the vain old man has watched his mane resume its whiteness, his complexion its Indian bronze. Guards passing his tidy cell peer in to see their model prisoner seated on an army cot, thumbing through his meager four-volume library as he awaits trial on charges of "colossal graft...
Milk Bottles. In eleven years, Chicago's hulking, six-foot-two Dave Garroway, 36, has traveled from NBC page boy, amateur astronomer, Navy ensign and staff announcer-to broadcasting eleven hours a week over Chicago's WMAQ. On each of his four radio and TV shows Garroway exhibits a somewhat different facet of his extravert personality...
Later, he taught accounting at the University of California and wrote Practical Farm Accounts, which sold 100,000 copies. In 1945 he took over the presidency of Boston's Museum of Natural History, in four years cleaned out its moldy exhibits and put through a plan to build one of the most modern museums...