Word: nine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Communist capture of Czechoslovakia last week stirred the uneasy memory of almost everyone. Nine years ago Nazi boots had stamped into Prague, and Czechoslovakia had fallen to Hitler. The steps heard in Prague last week came from the gumshoes of the Communist-controlled police; this time it was an inside job (see INTERNATIONAL...
...trouble focusing their minds on this distant crisis. The President was sunning himself at Key West. State Department officials said they had known all along that it was going to happen; they were only surprised by its suddenness. But the upshot of the matter was just what it was nine years ago. Czechoslovakia had fallen-this time to Stalin...
...could take it out," Charlie said, studying the tattoo, "but you'd see the outline." "I couldn't stand even that," said Mrs. Lambert. "Let's put a dripping dagger through the head, then," suggested Charlie. "I could do that for nine shillings." It was no go. "Well," said Charlie, "I could cover it with a nice nude and a Latin inscription." "No more women," said Mrs. Lambert. At last Charlie had an idea. "Why not a snake? That would cover it." Cecil Lambert, who hadn't said a word, started from his lethargy...
...Manhattan, Faye Emerson Roosevelt, wife of Elliott, began rehearsing for her Broadway debut next month, in a revival of Ferencz Molnar's The Play's the Thing. Her part: the only female in a cast of nine...
Finally, at 9:45, the twins flashed the ground nine times to announce that they were going to land. Said Herman, "It wasn't very healthy up there in the dark in something that didn't have a motor in it." The brothers put their plane into a dive. At 10:05 - twelve hours and 52 minutes after the take-off - they glided to a landing. They had topped the American duration record by nearly three hours...