Word: nine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most popular listening hours are between nine and ten o'clock in the morning and evening. Classical music and good dramatic shows were chosen favorites by most of the reporters...
...industrial machine. Now much of it has been destroyed and will have to be rebuilt -from the scorched earth up. By pulling in her belt again, Russia can in time make or get elsewhere what she hopes to buy from the U.S. Example: prewar Russia ordered four of nine generators from General Electric for the Dnieprostroy Dam, built five duplicates in Soviet factories, had to wait ten years. To rebuild Dnieprostroy the Russians could now build all nine, and probably faster than before. But they have ordered all nine from...
...also a moment of historic ironies. Remagen's bridge had spanned the years between World Wars I and II. Completed in 1918, it had been named for General Erich von Ludendorff, later to be Adolf Hitler's sponsor. Its seizure occurred nine years to the day after Hitler had brazenly violated the Versailles and Locarno Treaties by sending German troops into the demilitarized Rhineland...
...Meiktila British and U.S. airmen quickly put the airfields to their own uses. Tanks ranged over good roads to prevent reinforcements coming up from Rangoon. At Akyab, ruined as a port when the Japs fled nine weeks ago, Allied ships were unloading...
...Recife, white-suited, perspiring students milled about on the steaming cobblestones in front of the Pernambuco Daily. They were celebrating Brazil's "new freedom" (TIME, March 5). Suddenly, shots cracked out from nearby windows. Nine students fell wounded. The secretary of the Students' Union, Democrito de Souza, lay dead. Soldiers nabbed one gunman, who claimed he had been given his revolver by civil police, told to fire on the students...