Word: nine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Treasure of a far more valuable kind remains on Bora Bora; the So-odd children of Bora Bora mothers by unknown Army and Navy fathers. They are healthy, sturdy youngsters, and probably a great deal happier than nine-tenths of the children elsewhere in the world. Whether born in or out of wedlock, no island child ever goes into an orphan asylum. There are no such institutions down here...
...sent a succession of special envoys, including General George C. Marshall, to mediate between Chiang and Mao Tse-tung. U.S. mediation merely succeeded in holding up Chiang's forces for nine months in 1945-46 while the Reds...
...Revolution of Our Time and Wendell Berge's Cartels: Challenge to a Free World. His earnings from royalties were between $10,000 and $37,000. After his daily stint, the onetime Foreign Minister would spend an hour or two playing the Italian bowling game boccie with nine fellow prisoners, all former cabinet ministers. "We all became champions at the game," says Tanner...
That afternoon, Eric Wildman stopped off at the nearest hospital. "I've nine visible weals on my buttocks," he reported. "I've never suffered such indignity in my life...
...experiments on the towering cumulus clouds of summer, results were hardly better. Seventy-nine of them got the dry-ice treatment, but only 18 produced any rain; in all cases except five, rain was already falling within 30 miles. Even in these five cases, there was natural rain 40 to 60 miles away...