Word: nine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Yank correspondent covering the Yamashita trial. I was convinced that he was a man of unusual caliber who was being railroaded. I left the trial after nine days because I felt as though I were watching a lynching. The twelve reporters who remained for the whole thing held a secret vote on whether Yamashita should be hanged. Their vote...
...life rafts tied together just off his plane's left wing. The B-17 circled to drop smoke bombs and green-dye markers, then flew in low to release a parachute-borne "Flying Dutchman" lifeboat. "It was a beautiful drop," said Grable. "Right in our laps." Seventy-nine hours after their B-29 went down, the bearded, haggard survivors were hoisted safely over the rail of the Canadian destroyer Haida...
...look at Yale. With a squad of approximately the same size, 21 states are represented. More important, with the exception of Connecticut no single state has more than five representatives, while nine send more than one apiece...
Four Cambridge City Councillors-elect have assured Edward A. Crane '35 of election as mayor by pledging him their support in the January mayoralty contest, it was revealed yesterday. Cambridge's mayor is chosen by the City Council from among; its nine members...
...Twenty-nine Austrian students arrive is Cambridge today for their third stop in a seven-month tour of American and Canadian universities...