Word: nine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Illusion to Reality. The U.S. record since V-J day was a record of failure to seize & hold the initiative. Next to Marshall himself, there was no one better qualified to understand that record, and explain it, than Bob Lovett. As Under Secretary, he had been for the past nine months the prime executor of U.S. policy. As Marshall's second-in-command, and Acting Secretary for the 129 days that Marshall had been away from his post, Lovett had also carried the load of day-to-day decisions. His career as Under Secretary of State spanned three stages...
...people of nine states surveyed the damage. An estimated 52 were dead, and hundreds injured. Rain-swollen rivers flooded valleys in Michigan, Illinois, Iowa, New York and Pennsylvania. Wreckage littered the Midwest landscape for a thousand miles...
...easy for the newcomer to fit into Adams' scheme of things. This House has the asset--if you consider it such--of being the most relaxed and un-self-conscious of all seven. It has to be. Within its nine entries are contained the representatives of almost every varsity of thinker, political and otherwise, in the country...
...Maddux lacrosse team will grace the Dixie turf but half as often as the nine -- against Maryland, Drexel, and Navy...
Leading the parade will be Coach Adolph Samborski's 20-man squad of Varsity baseball players. The Crimson nine leaves Sunday for the already-green fields of the South, and whether it is victorious or not, it will return groggy...