Word: nine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ready to go along on a denunciation of the Franco regime but was reluctant to see a specific time set for the proposed diplomatic boycott (TIME, June 10), argued forcefully for almost an hour in support of the subcommittee's recommendation. When he finished, the other nine Council members looked at each other and at Chairman Alexandre Parodi for several minutes of embarrassed silence...
Then Pauley retired to a Seoul hospital to be treated for dysentery. Army leaders in Korea read Pauley's report, let out an outraged howl. For nine months they had been gleaning information about North Korean factory removal from stories told by refugees. Much of their data dovetailed and had been checked and rechecked. How, they asked, could Pauley's report, after five days of guided wandering, be accepted in the light of their carefully prepared evidence? They remembered that, while Pauley was still in the Russian zone, his mission headquarters in Seoul had complained he "was operating...
...Thirty-nine second-grade children of the Takamiya Primary School here went on strike against the highhanded and selfish manner of their teachers in disposing of crops from the school vegetable gardens, cultivated by the children...
...windswept stubble field on the outskirts of Regina, nine tractors were lined up, Indian file. Around one tractor and the "one-way cultivator" hitched to it, a crowd of 300 farmers, implement makers and Regina businessmen kept their eyes on the professor, a tall, husky man, clad in much-washed cotton trousers and shirt, a sweat-stained felt...
...Bureau started out with only two vacancies, Hathaway said, but since that time it has rooted out 484 different listings. Not all of these have been of very high quality but only nine were declared to be unsuitable for occupancy. Twenty-two of the vacancies, however, were already rented by the time the students arrived, while six other landlords changed their minds after previous offers...