Word: nine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Just as this man has surrendered his prerogative to determine the contents of his products on a so-called moral basis he, and his counterparts in other companies, have surrendered the right to determine the contents of their products on a political basis to nine Congressmen sitting on the House Committee for Un-American Activities...
...Party machinery, which it can control, rather than through Eastern European governments. As Pravda explained: "What [these states] do need is consolidation and protection of their independence and sovereignty through mobilization and organization of their domestic democratic forces, as has been correctly stated in the known declaration of the nine Communist Parties...
Practical Hazing. Hell Week had been banned on some campuses-notably at Indiana University, after nine Theta Chis were jailed for breaking into a grocery store on a Hell Week scavenger hunt. At Tufts College in Medford, Mass., which first abolished and then restored Hell Week, "practical hazing" (e.g., cleaning and polishing the houses) had replaced such schoolboyish stunts as measuring the Charles River bridges with 13-inch codfish. Everywhere paddling (also known as "boarding," "hacking," etc.) was about as out-of-date as bell-bottom trousers...
Walnut Panels. After his death in 1924, the Chamber dropped much of the old flamboyance. In the oak-mahogany-walnut-paneled offices in the Chamber's own nine-story building, there is a full-time staff of 150 go-getters headed by able, 44-year-old General Manager Harold Wright. The staff is actively supported by some 13,400 members who serve on the Chamber's scores of committees, a board of 49 directors which meets once a week, a president who customarily spends about half his time on Chamber work...
...letter was signed by nine leaders of collegiate groups in their capacities as private individuals and not as members of their organizations...