Word: nine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hamp Kendall, 71, of Caldwell County, N.C., who was mistakenly convicted of murder 42 years ago and served more than nine years before the mistake was discovered, wrote to Governor R. Gregg Cherry to complain of the legend on his "victim's" tombstone, which read: "Lawrence Nelson, robbed and murdered by Hamp Kendall." Said Kendall: "No damned man that is innocent would stand under this slanderous tombstone scandal right where he is trying to make an honest living." The Governor was sympathetic, but said he was powerless...
...midmorning, shrilling sirens in San Jose brought the people of Costa Rica's capital out into the streets. Just nine days after Costa Rica had disbanded its army, the country had been invaded from Nicaragua by supporters of banished ex-President Rafael Calderon Guardia. Costa Rica's provisional government, headed by Colonel Jose Figueres, called the nation to arms, got set to fight for its life...
Although painfully shy, nine-year-old Olivia was already an actress. In a school Hansel and Gretel, she played the mother, the head angel and the second witch-and bitterly resented not being cast as Gretel. But Stepfather Fontaine disapproved of the stage. In her junior year in high school, when he forbade her to play Violet in Mrs. Bumpstead-Leigh, Olivia left home. Although she later made her peace with her stepfather, she "never slept under that roof again...
...nine months Dr. Theodor Herr's appendix had been nudging and twingeing him. Recently the brisk, 37-year-old German surgeon, of Hamdorf, near Kiel, decided it was time to have it out. To find out how his own patients felt, he injected Novocaine and operated on himself. Unlike most surgeons in self-operations, Herr used no mirrors, merely had an assistant hand him his instruments as he worked (from a half-reclining position). Next day he was out of bed, attending to his patients...
That was not the whole reason. American Overseas, with retroactive mail pay, would show a 1948 profit of about $1,750,000. But American Overseas needed $15 million to pay for its eight new Boeing Stratocruisers; American Airlines, which lost $3,900,000 in nine months this year, might have trouble raising cash for the planes in addition to financing its own domestic operations. Under the deal, American Airlines would probably get about $7,780,000 worth of Pan Am stock (at the present market value of American Overseas stock...