Word: nine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...which had focused so much attention on the West's economic troubles, like sharp reefs exposed in an ebb tide. Yet nobody thought it safe to assume that Moscow would make no more bids for power in Europe. With Bevin, Schuman and Acheson in Washington, the representatives of nine other Atlantic Pact nations* joined them to blueprint Western defense machinery. In this field, the statesmen were on sure ground; a scheduled three-hour meeting lasted only one hour...
...last social year, the Frankses accepted 260 invitations to all sorts of Washington parties, entertained some 5,000 at their Embassy. In a single typical week last autumn, they had 354 guests at luncheons, dinners and cocktails, attended nine functions outside-ranging the social scale from an Indian Embassy dinner to a reception honoring the unification of British & American screw-thread standards...
...played in his first Nationals at 14). But after getting to the semifinal round, Marlene's firm grip slipped; on the second hole, she took seven strokes in her match with Dorothy Kielty, a fellow Californian from Long Beach. Though Marlene came back strong on the last nine, she was down one on the 18th, and beaten. In the finals, tournament-wise Dorothy Kielty, winner of last year's Western, met her match. Mrs. Dorothy Germain Porter, 25-year-old housewife of Westmont, N.J., beat her 3 and 2, became the first mother to take the title since...
...nine rounds, Rocky Graziano sat in his corner, his face smeared with blood and bewilderment.The reform-school graduate who used to thrill Manhattan crowds with his ferocious, windmill technique was losing his first major fight in New York after a three-year exile. "You've got to knock him out," warned his manager, while he smeared carpenter's wax on a cut above Rocky's left eye. Growled Graziano, impatiently: "I still got one round...
Last week Al Greenfield, still full of beans and plans at 62, decided that the time had come for City Stores* to grow some more. For $1,300,000 he bought from Floyd B. Odium's Atlas Corp. its 70% ownership of Manhattan's fast-growing, nine-store Franklin Simon & Co., Inc. chain of specialty shops. Like Greenfield, Odium had also gone into the department-store business during the depression. He had spent $750,000 expanding Franklin Simon, opening branches in Atlanta, Washington, Cleveland, Bridgeport, Garden City, East Orange. He lifted its gross from $10 million...