Word: nine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...business would be ready on time. A modern city bloomed on swamps where last year 15,000 Haitians lived in squalor. Between broad, flower-banked avenues stood half a dozen dazzling white official buildings that would serve later as government offices. Pavilions were rising for the U.N., the U.S., nine other countries...
...After nine months of marriage, Audie Murphy, 25, most decorated U.S. soldier of World War II, rookie cinemactor, author (To Hell and Back), and Wanda Hendrix, 20, cinemingénue (Ride the Pink Horse, Miss Tatlock's Millions), decided to try a separation. Said Wanda: "This isn't final. I hope it won't be. I don't want a divorce." Said Audie: "It's all my fault. She's done the best she could...
Last week the Digest had not yet figured out how to turn Rose into nine other languages, including the Scandinavian...
...first human patients treated with the electrophrenic respirator was nine-year-old Bruce Plater, of Ottawa, Ont., who developed bulbar polio while on vacation in New England. In July, at Children's Hospital in Boston, Bruce's breathing was electrically controlled for six days before the disease receded. Six machines are now ready for use. By New Year's they will be generally available, at about $275 each...
...nine, William Claude Dukinfield conceived a passion for juggling. In the Philadelphia stable where the family vegetable cart was stored, he practiced earnestly with oranges and lemons. But the elder Dukinfield took a dark view of his son's ambition, and once he went as far as to tan him for bruising a lemon. Incensed beyond containment, William climbed aloft in the stable one day and dropped a large box on his father's head. Then he left home, never to return...