Word: nine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...your article on Roy Roberts of the Kansas City Star [TIME, Feb. 24], you neglected to mention the great pulse of public opinion. When the Star and Times were "bedridden" it was tough not to see what Li'l Abner was doing. However, nine out of ten people then and now would drop the Star like a hot potato if any other kind of daily sheet would only come to town. The people's prayer is: please, God, send one, so we can have both sides of an issue and not have just what one paper likes shoved...
...last week the Republican-led 80th Congress had been in session nine weeks. To date it had not accomplished much: it was still getting ready to do a lot of things...
Actually, the Congress was not hopelessly behind schedule. Few Congresses have accomplished much in their first nine weeks. But Leader Bob Taft was sensitive. He blamed the Democrats for "deliberate" stalling-a defense which roused the conservative Washington Star's Cartoonist Jim Berryman to gibe right back. He threatened to break the lull by calling the Senate into daily and nightly sessions. This week, with other party leaders, he held a unity meeting with the G.O.P. freshmen and promised them two places on the G.O.P. Policy Committee...
...skaters wound up their campaigns with a pair of impressive records after closing contests with Yale at New Haven. The Junior six, which elected Bill Hamlen captain prior to the Eli tilt, was unbeaten and once tied in seven games, while the '50-men lost only three times in nine starts...
Novelist Stafford (who is the wife of Poet Robert Lowell) tells the story of Molly Fawcett, a plain, wise little girl growing up near Los Angeles in the 1920s. Going on nine when the story begins, she and her brother Ralph, 11, are the "intellectuals" of the family. Molly writes poetry and reads The American Boy; Ralph has already studied the Encyclopedia Britannica article on Reproduction. Like any brother and sister, they sometimes fight, but the rest of the time they are such cronies and co-conspirators that Molly thinks they might one day get married...