Word: nine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Release of factories to produce nearly a third more goods for civilians within nine months, or sooner. (During this period enough metals would be released to begin the making of many an item Americans have not had in a long time, including automobiles...
...Nine Allied armies, knifing into central Germany, trapped one Nazi army group and were on the verge of cutting off a second. In this week, on the edge of history, the outnumbered, outmaneuvered, broken Wehrmacht faced the chilling prospect of losing two-thirds of its strength in the west...
Londoners felt like celebrating; this might at least be the beginning of the end of nine months of the Things. But they were warned to caution. Reports that the Germans were evacuating their rocket bases in The Netherlands, if true, might mean that the enemy would send over a final shower. Besides, V-1 could still be launched at England from planes operating at night from Germany itself. The despairing Nazis might even load up their obsolete bombers with explosives and guide them by radio to crash in England...
...Examples: nine amendments to Dumbarton Oaks, recommended by the Protestants (TIME, Jan. 29), which would fit world security plans to Christian ideals; the "Pattern for Peace" signed by 146 top-ranking Protestants, Catholics and Jews, calling for a moral world order backed by "adequate sanctions" to keep the peace...
...seeing a sign reading "Shop of Romance-ment," joyfully became an apprentice -only to find that the sign really read "Shop of Roman Cement." He loved the theater - but when he met beautiful Actress Irene Vanbrugh he could think of nothing to talk about but the Thirty-nine Articles of the Church of England. Of dazzling Actress Ellen Terry he made what was probably the most passionate declaration of his life: "I can imagine no more delightful occupation" he said, "than brushing Ellen Terry's hair...