Word: nine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there anything else?" demanded the prosecutor. There was nothing. He gestured toward the guards. Yoshiko, upon order, faced about and walked nine paces forward. A guard with a rifle came up behind her. "Kneel down," he shouted. The echo rang out from the prison wall. Yoshiko knelt with the poise of a girl being introduced at court. The guard raised his gun, fired one shot into the back of her head. Yoshiko pitched awkwardly on her face. The morning...
Lady Astor, who at 68 still delights in teeing off on all & sundry, tried nine country-club holes in Atlanta, turned in a creditable...
...with more than 2,000 lobotomies. Results have been promising. Of the 24, 17 were schizophrenics, three involutionals (agitated depressives), two manic-depressives, two psychopaths (morally irresponsible). Eleven of the 24 patients are now at home, ten are working at their former jobs as clerical workers, machinists, other occupations; nine more are ready for discharge; the remaining four are no worse and no better. None died...
...nine months Maggie Teyte studied with Debussy, he hardly said a word to her. ("He was an ogre," says Maggie, "and I was very cold-very English.") But she learned enough from him to take over Mary Garden's role at the Opéra-Comique and make a name for herself as Mèlisande. That was 40 years ago. Last week, although they had often cheered her in recital, Manhattan operagoers finally got to hear Maggie in the role that had first won her fame. It was the first time she had ever sung the full opera...
Eight for Seven. The real trouble is logrolling, said Newsman Binder. In 1947, seven of the nine journalism prizes went to newspapers or wire services represented on the board. The New York Times has won 20 Pulitzers since 1918 - eight of them in the seven years since the Times's twice-Pulitzered Arthur Krock joined the board. The Associated Press has won eleven Pulitzers, the United Press none...