Word: nine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...returned soldiers had little to say. Strict secrecy was still their rule. But two facts about them and their comrades were known: all the French Canadians who had gone to France before D-day had volunteered; besides the nine who returned, only six others were known to be alive, out of nearly 70 who had dropped into France...
...drawing steadily closer to Valencia and a junction with the 77th. Japanese lines were beginning to crumble. But it had taken the bloodiest fighting of the second Philippine campaign to make them crumble. Leyte was not the pushover it had seemed when Douglas MacArthur returned to the Philippines nine weeks...
...thousand nine hundred and forty-four years after His birth in a Bethlehem stable, that part of the world which calls itself Christian this week paused briefly in its war to worship the Prince of Peace. Nearly everywhere the voices of children, not yet of military age, sang in most European languages, including German...
...delegates mustered for the Party's annual conference. Behind the platform hung an impressive banner proclaiming "A People's Peace." Crowds of young delegates, many of them in uniform, were eager to define policy and state where Labor stood. A general election, Britain's first in nine years, was in the offing. Labor thought it had a real chance...
...heedless of boundary lines as rain in the lush jungles, revolution had swept Central America for nine months - not only in Salvador but in Honduras, Nicaragua and Guatemala. The military rulers who survived the revolutionary purge killed, tortured, imprisoned hundreds of men & women, drove thousands into exile. The people continued to fight back with guerrilla warfare, bombs, strikes, captured Lend-Lease equipment, pamphlets - and even an underground radio...