Word: nine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stabbed nine times," she said. "The baby was stabbed three times. When the Japs were gone I walked out the back door and gave her to my brother. I couldn't stand it any more...
...took nine days, instead of the scheduled month. An A.A.F. officer explained the speed : "You see what the boys can do when they're going home." Sometimes Chinese military passengers turned up at airports with wives & children, or with concubines, hoping to take them along, but most showed good military discipline and resigned themselves to discomfort. The crowding was so great that they jampacked the floor in a sitting position, each man's back against another's bent knees. Because ground troops have a tendency to airsickness, an open barrel in the middle of the cabin...
...Whoever Shoots First." The troubled, unhappy House got ready to debate the already much-amended May-Johnson bill for control of atomic energy. Many changes were certain on the floor. In the Senate, a nine-man committee headed by chubby Freshman Senator Brien McMahon planned new hearings. The House bill will be further rewritten there...
Harold L. ("Terrible-Tempered") Ickes, asked for the umpteenth time if he expected to quit his Interior Secretaryship soon, tried a kittenish answer for a change: "That cat has more than nine lives. . . . Besides, I don't like cats...
...something else again. After he got the upper hand of his studies, he became the all-conquering football team's top scorer. He gave up indoor track to play on the Point's potent (won 14, lost 1) basketball quintet. As center fielder on the baseball nine, Junior won a $75,000 appraisal label from Dodger President Branch Rickey. In West Point's famed Master of the Sword test-the 300-yd. run, dodge run, standing broad jump, vertical jump, bar vault, rope climb, chins, parallel bar dips, softball throw, sit-ups-he scored an all-time...