Word: nine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...myriad islands in the mid-Pacific, few have had a more colorful history than little Kusaie, a six-by nine-mile dot in the Carolines. Americans were the first white men there, in 1806. Brutal, roisterous, buccaneering crews of U.S. whaling ships turned the gentle natives into fierce killers. For years Kusaie was an island of savagery...
Austere Georges Thierry d'Argenlieu, Vice Admiral of France and Father Provincial (on leave) of French Carmelites, sat stiffly under nine royal umbrellas of silver and white silk. Beside him lolled young (23), plump-cheeked Norodom Sianouk, king of sleepy Cambodia. As colored searchlights played over the Pnom-Penh palace grounds, monarch and monk watched ornately dressed, slant-eyed dancing girls glide through the supple, serpentine movements of the Cambodian ballet...
...evening wore on, Pauline Hutt grew frightened. Finally she bundled up her nine-year-old son and together they began a frantic search in the biting zero wind and darkness. When she found her husband, he was trailing blood as he crawled toward home. He mumbled that he had slipped on the ice, struck his gun against a rock and shot himself...
...company flew in diamond drills and other equipment at a cost of 73? a pound for shipping, spent $10 million just prospecting. Last May its chief geologist, Dr. J. A. Retty, cautiously reported progress: nine finds of high-grade iron ore bodies in Labrador, 15 in Ungava. Said the trade journal Northern Miner: "The most important iron ore discovery in America since the finding of the Mesabi range...
Founded in 1930, nine years after Reed's death, the society has hopes of an active membership drawn not only from the radically red, but also from die-hard conservatives. How they propose to lure the conservatives Stuart did not reveal...