Word: nine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...some respects, the justices were nine broiling brook's in search of a new main stream. Running down one side of the hill were Frankfurter, Jackson, Burton and Vinson. Running down the other side, a more precipitous slope, were Black, Douglas, Murphy and Rutledge. Reed ran back & forth...
...daily in Manhattan's Central Park. Even while she is busy preparing her part of the program for the Goethe Bicentennial celebration at Aspen, Colo, next month, she "keeps three kitchens going"-one at her sunlit 16th floor studio in the "heaven of Carnegie Hall," one in the nine-room house she runs as the wife of Dr. Shelby Rooks, Presbyterian minister, and one on their York River, Virginia farm, which, she says, "is just a place to isolate yourself -a few boats on the river, a few bunnies on the lawn...
...sensational flop. The Times-Leader did not want it; neither did any New York syndicate. On & off for nine years, while he worked for three Wilkes-Barre newspapers, Fisher tried without success to sell Dumbelletski, later renamed Palooka (a common prize ring term for a third rater). At last McNaught Syndicate offered Fisher a job, not as a cartoonist, but as a salesman. Hustling Ham sold McEvoy & Striebel's Dixie Dugan strip to 41 newspapers and promised that on his next trip he would bring the "most terrific cartoon of all time." With that buildup, he sold Palooka...
...nine rounds last week, Marcel Cerdan of Casablanca, onetime marine in France's navy, had done the best he could, but he was fighting with one hand. In the opening round, the first time he threw a left hook, he had torn the elevator muscle in his left shoulder. From Challenger Jake La Motta's corner, he heard the entreaties of La Motta's handlers above the buzz of 22,183 spectators: " 'At's it, Jackson. 'Atta go, Jackson . . . put the bomb in." Jake (alias Jackson) never put the bomb in. Just before...
...days and played third himself. The experiment worked; Keltner began hitting again when he came back. Then Boudreau (batting a frail .243) benched Mickey Vernon and moved over to first base. The Indians perked up and won six straight games, including one in which they built up a nine-run cushion for Feller in the first two innings...