Word: nine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Miss Steinert, who was assigned to do the Petrillo personality, spent four hours with him straightening out such items as his schooling ("I was still in the fourth grade after nine years, so I quit"), his phobia for germs ("Only it's not like Winchell says. I open them doorknobs without the Kleenex...
...nine hours, the hot words flew. In the end, the Murray resolution was adopted, 33 to 11. Then Phil Murray did something he had never done before. He made the left-wingers stand up and be counted. If the time ever came-and it might come before the 1948 campaign was over -when Phil Murray felt it necessary to boot these left-wingers out of the C.I.O., he would have a black & white record to use against the likes of Harry Bridges, the Transport Workers' Mike Quill and the United Electrical Workers' Al Fitzgerald...
...radio show in Dallas. At 14, she had a band of her own called the "Rhythmaticians." At 15, she was singing with Swing Fiddler Joe Venuti's band, wandering across the U.S. on deadly one-night stands. Then Jazzman Charlie Barnet put her up against his nine brasses. "I pay for 'em," Charlie used to roar, "and I want to hear 'em." After two years of shouting, Kay Starr's voice broke down...
...thousands of victims sterilized by the Nazis (by the tying or cutting of the excretory ducts of the testes). Dr. Vincent J. O'Conor, Northwestern University Medical School urologist, reported in The Journal of the American Medical Association that he has operated on 14 sterilized men; nine became fertile. He queried other urologists; 135 reported that they had performed 420 operations to restore fertility, succeeded in 35 to 40% of the cases. The operation, anastomosis (reconnection) of the vas deferens, is not difficult, he added: any surgeon...
...broken body (the army rated him 75% invalid) wanted his only daughter to do everything he couldn't, and to do it well. He called her "Tinker"-a nickname nobody else ever used-and she thought her daddy was something pretty special. When Clyde Scott hobbled around the nine-hole cow-pasture golf course at Kingsmere in the summers, "Tinker" caddied...