Word: nine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nine years since Old Tom went to prison for cheating the income-tax collector of $443,550, his machine has had only one victory worth crowing about: its defeat, demanded by Harry Truman, of Congressman Roger C. Slaughter in 1946's Democratic primary. A fortnight ago, oldtime Pendergastlies celebrated a minor victory: eight Pendergast machinemen were acquitted of vote-fraud charges (on which the Star had gathered the evidence) growing out of the 1946 primary. In a year of trials, only four of 39 accused had been pronounced guilty...
With his wife and three children, Batista now lives quietly in Daytona Beach -next door to 83-year-old automotive pioneer Ransom Eli Olds. Every morning, he is up at 7 for a brisk row in the nine-foot boat he keeps in the Halifax River. He plays tennis at the smart Daytona Beach Bath and Tennis Club, goes to the movies two or three times a week and occasionally speaks at Rotary Club luncheons...
...Kuniyoshi looks rather like a prematurely aged Japanese schoolboy. He wears horn-rimmed glasses and a porkpie hat, smokes a pipe, and says he has "no time" for golf any more. He is too busy working, nine hours a day, on the sorts of pictures that fill most of his Whitney show: ragged, melancholy still lifes, Western landscapes and dusky figure paintings. Each painting begins with a detailed charcoal drawing from the model, which he modifies from month to month as he sees fit. "I play with my paintings," he says, "and I sometimes have a dozen of them going...
...jinx him, his benchmates made a point of not looking at him or speaking to him unless he asked them a question. ("Then I'd get a quick, choppy answer.") Their efforts paid off: Murry Dickson got the first one-man spring-training no-hitter in nine years...
With a three hold advantage under his belt at the close of the nine holes, Line Kinnicutt hold the biggest lead of all the Crimson players. Ozzie Keiver pulled up with a two hole advantage, Captain Savidge was all even, and Bob Mattson had dropped a hole at the close of the day's shivering activities...