Word: nine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...midsection of the Mississippi Valley was not the only part of the Midwest in serious trouble last week. A million and a half acres of rich corn soil had been drowned out by rain that had fallen all but nine days during the month of June. The Missouri was 10.3 feet above flood stage and still rising. In Iowa, Agriculture Department experts called erosion losses (over 5 million acres) the worst in corn-belt history...
Curley had fought his conviction and sentence through U.S. Appellate and Supreme Courts, and lost. Last week, in the Washington District Court of Judge James M. Proctor, he made a final effort to beat the rap. But despite doctors' affidavits saying that Curley suffered from nine dangerous afflictions, and Curley's dramatic pleas for clemency, Judge Proctor was unmoved. Said he: "I think the defendant should be committed today." Said Curley: "You are sentencing me to death. There should be some less punishment than that." Said the Judge: "Penal institutions are staffed and equipped to care for prisoners...
...much better than gold or precious stones. We sent 2,000,000 to Warsaw recently. We buy them for 2½ marks a package in the British zone, mostly through doctors who get interzonal passes easily and like to make some money; then in Poland we sell them for nine zlotys. Nine zlotys buys 4½ pounds of butter over there, which we can sell in Germany for 1,350 marks. It does not take long to get rich that...
...Called the world's most powerful battleship, the Musashi displaced 72,809 tons fully loaded, sported nine 18-inch guns-the world's largest. U.S. Navy flyers sank it with six torpedoes and numerous bomb hits in the Battle for Leyte Gulf...
...body stiffened, and he fell backwards as though his heels were hinged to the floor. With what was left of instinct he fumbled blindly for the ropes, brushed them with clumsy gloves, and lay still. The bell rang and the round ended as the referee's count reached nine. Jimrny Doyle's handlers went to work with cold water and smelling salts. But Boxer Doyle fought no more...