Word: nine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Place Like Home. In Cleveland, William S. Wellman's pigeon, entered in a 100-mile race, came in last - nine years later...
Americans had been watching Andrei Gromyko, off & on, for nine years, ever since he arrived in Washington in 1939, a tall, dark, diffident young man with darting, unfixed eyes. He had not changed much, just grown a little heavier; his brief smiles (which at first made his new diplomatic acquaintances feel they might somehow "get across" to this Russian) were briefer than before. He would leave his name behind in the U.S. vernacular: "to pull a gromyko"-meaning, variously, to walk out or to be a robot reiterating the reflexive...
That's the attitude of George McTernan, for nine years carpenter to the University, towards the 311 years of tradition embodied in the two Commencement platforms now rising...
...nine men are included under the University's annual spring retirement policy...
...years pass, she marries a rich nobleman, and then bumps into Jourdan at the opera. Although the interim is supposed to be nine years, neither Miss Fontaine nor Jourdan have changed at all, so the audience is just as surprised as the heroine that he doesn't remember her. She tries to remind him but he remains buffaloed. Soon thereafter the son dies and, as she feels herself dying too, she pens him a long, long letter...