Word: nine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...full-time help), takes an active part in church and civic affairs, bought four new dresses or suits last year (almost all of them tailored to the "new look") without much help from her husband - although 13% said he was there when the purchases were made. She has nine pairs of shoes, five hats, and four pieces of jewelry which she values...
...Servant's Role. When Franklin Roosevelt made his frontal assault on the "nine old men," Hughes reacted, in public at least, with Jovian calm. But he quietly and effectively fought F.D.R.'s effort to pack the court. When Roosevelt stood before him to be sworn in for a precedent-breaking third term, Hughes whispered through his beard: "Franklin, isn't this becoming a trifle monotonous?" A few months later, at 79, he resigned as Chief Justice and retired to a quiet life of quiet honors...
...Citizens of Tulare, Calif, lined the streets for nine miles to welcome 17-year-old Bob Mathias, home from his decathlon victory in the Olympic Games. After hours of cheers, band music, speeches and photographs, Bob decided he'd had enough. He drank a quart of milk, locked himself in his room, played phonograph records and waited for the crowds to go away...
...scene was older than Ottawa itself. By Ward Market had been a going concern since the 1840s, when the capital-to-be was known as Bytown,* a lusty lumbermen's town. Here in nine acres of open stalls, some 500 farmers sell their vegetables, chickens, suckling pigs, sides of mutton, raw wool, herbs, honey, eggs, cheese, flowers...
...expressed wish of William Butler Yeats will be fulfilled, now that the war is over. His body, buried these nine years in the south of France where he died, will be taken home (in an Eire destroyer) and reburied in a grave in Drumcliffe Cemetery, County Sligo...