Word: nine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Exact. In Santa Fe, a long-term prisoner at the state penitentiary stepped up to the newly installed soft-drink bar, remarked as he sipped: "First coke I've tasted in eight years, nine months, and two days...
TIME-in-Rome brings to nine the number of TIME-editions printed especially for our servicemen across the oceans - for TIME was the first magazine to invent a "Pony" Edition for fast overseas delivery, and the first magazine to print a special edition for our troops in Australia, first in Hawaii, first on the Persian Gulf, in the Middle East, in India, in the Philippines...
...streets of Raritan, N.J., John Basilone used to run alongside the Italian peddlers' carts, shouting at the top of his voice, "Any vegetables today, lady?" John was a lively boy; he had nine brothers & sisters, and his Italian-born parents had a hard time keeping track...
...King Ibn Saud of Arabia ("Servant of the Mighty One") walks with a slow, deliberate gait. The nine battle wounds of his youth, even the trouble some one in his groin, have not curbed his legendary virility, but they have reduced his ranging stride. Fortnight ago, when he met President Roosevelt on a U.S. cruiser in the Suez Canal (TIME, March 5), the King looked longingly at the President's well-worn wheelchair...
Czechoslovakia will have to use the money to purchase supplies in Canada, will have to repay the loan, plus 2½% interest, within five to nine years...