Word: nine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more than nine months, Bernard Baruch, perennial adviser to Presidents, had devoted himself to synthesizing an atomic energy policy for the U.S. and getting it approved by the U.N. As always, he had flanked himself with able and distinguished aides who, like himself, took no pay. By & large, Baruch had been enormously effective. With only Russia and Poland abstaining, the U.N. Atomic Energy Commission had adopted the Baruch plan (TIME, Jan. 6), passed it up to the Security Council, where the veto question must finally be faced...
...Manhattan hospital with her leg amputated, and Pearl remained in police custody, detectives combed the state for him. After five days they flushed him, crouching in a sleeping bag near a farmhouse in the Catskills. He opened fire with a German automatic. Moments later, Mr. Excitement was dead, with nine slugs...
Though there are nine television stations operating on regular schedules (in New York, Philadelphia, Washington, Schenectady, Chicago, Los Angeles), they broadcast, on an average, only 20 hours a week, and only the telecasts of sporting events have attained passing skill. There are only 12,000 sets in U.S. homes, 13,000 fewer than in Britain. And the road to full set production has been blocked first by material shortages and of late by "the color controversy...
...huge, talented operatives. Bob, who measures six foot five, was the leading scorer in the Ivy League four years ago, while Jim, an inch shorter, is regarded as just a shade less proficient than his elder brother. These two lads are dwarfed by one Ed Peterson, a six-foot-nine-inch performer who was previously used as a reserve, but may start at center against the Varsity...
...Harvard men as a race seem to be pretty honest about returning what they find. We're able to give back about nine out of every ten articles the boys come in here looking for. Mostly they are things that the finder has no use for, like books. We have the lowest average on things like fountain pens and automatic pencils--when someone finds a Parkers 51 under their seats they seem to just pocket it without a second thought...