Word: nine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Announced a new nine-nation agreement (including Russia) to regulate whaling...
...bodies do not float as woodwork does, but the tide and waves push and roll them along the bottom until they reach shallow water, when they get into the undertow and are tossed up on the beach." The watches found on the dead had stopped at a quarter past nine...
...exchange of notes which Edwin B. Newman, lecturer on Psychology, filed and forgot nine months ago has suddenly yielded a flood of letters and newspaper editorials praising him and also damning him as "fuzzy-minded" and "un-American...
...third vacancy in the executive phalanx, the political touts figure that somebody is bound to die, retire, or otherwise disappear from among the remaining nine positions. They point knowingly to figures who accompany the President on vacation jaunts (such as Governor Wallgren of Washington, ousted in the recent election). They also point knowingly to figures who do not accompany the President anywhere (such as General Eisenhower). These people, the commentators reveal, are dark horses for the Cabinet, which means that somebody has to get out to make room for them...
...been proven by science that swimming consumes more energy than any other sport, and last year it was proven under competition that Hal Ulen's swimmers can win more meets than most teams in the nation. Last year, his moist horde overpowered all of their nine opponents except Yale. This year they're out to make it a clean sweep...