Word: nine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...importance was underscored by the fact that all the conferees were pledged to secrecy. Nine Congressmen, including the Republican chiefs of the Foreign and Appropriations Committees, were consulted. No one would go beyond an announcement of Chairman Vandenberg (R-Mich) of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee...
...dropping; and Niko Zakhariades, present Secretary-General, a Moscow-trained' veteran party organizer who once shot a man in an Athens square. (Zakhariades claimed that his victim was a Trotskyite, but since the Greeks were not then using the Moscow ground rules, Zakhariades went to jail for nine years...
...ever taught him how to paint, but in the remaining nine years of his ailing life Morris Hirshfield turned out 72 painfully detailed paintings, mostly sexless nudes and gaudy peacocks and quail. Before he died last summer, he had been given two one-man shows. Last week, posthumously, he had a third. It gave Amateur Hirshfield the distinction, rare among painters, of having exhibited every picture he had ever painted...
...Breaks. But without the planning, and above all, without the breaks, it might have been the greatest setback to Allied arms since Dunkirk. Ship crews and assault troops alike, Morison explains, were in most cases only half-trained. When it came to combat, nine out of ten were utter greenhorns. With huge fleets committed far from home, heavy weather on D-day might have been fatal. The weather was in fact generally calm and clear, although high seas (15ft. surf) had swept the Moroccan coast almost until the morning of the landings...
After a nip-and-tuck first half, during which the lead changed nine times, the Crimson left the floor with a 24 to 23 advantage. But the Ithacans combined offensive accuracy with a tight defense to sweep six points ahead early in the second half, and although the Varsity threatened consistently thereafter, Coach Bill Barclay's squad was never able to catch...