Word: nine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tokyo had cabled its consulate in Honolulu: "We have been receiving reports from you on ship movements, but in future will you also report even when there are no movements." And on Dec. 6 Honolulu cabled back to Tokyo: "The following ships were observed at anchor-nine battleships, three light cruisers, three submarine tenders, 17 destroyers, and in addition there were four light cruisers, two destroyers lying at docks...
Joseph Vitolo Jr., nine years old and small in the underfed fashion of the poor, was the 18th child (nine still living) of an immigrant Italian who makes a little money working on an ash truck, and a fat Italian mother who helps buy food by cutting flowers out of cloth. He went to school, where his teachers considered him bright, and in the evenings he played in a rock-strewn vacant lot. Usually he played with the neighborhood girls because he was too little to get much attention from the older boys...
...Russians had clamored: "When will they hang the dog?" Last week at Lüneburg, a British Army court sentenced Joseph Kramer, the "beast of Belsen," to death by hanging. His blonde, sadistic assistant, 22-year-old Irma Grese, and nine others were sentenced to the same death. Fraulein Grese sobbed. Of the 33 other defendants, 14 were acquitted, one got life, five got 15-year sentences, 13 got one to ten years...
...peace talk, Sjahrir demanded at least a guarantee of eventual independence. The Dutch would not give it. Further talks were scheduled, though agreement seemed remote. Meanwhile, the British seized Semarang in central Java after nationalists murdered three officers there. At Surabaya Britain's Indian troops inched forward after nine days of bitter fighting...
Communist guerrillas had cut the rail road from the great Kailan coal mines to the port of Chinwangtao. For nine days none of the Kailan coal, which China desperately needs, had moved. U.S. Major General Dewitt Peck, commander of the ist Marine Division, tried the route to Chinwangtao. For two days Communist guerrillas sporadically attacked his train. Near Lwanhsien village, his train was stalled by Communist small-arms fire. General Peck ordered the marines to fire back, while he sat smoking his pipe and cursing. Then he called for a Piper Cub to finish the trip. His superior, Major...