Word: nine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nine postwar mayors, the only one who seemed to have had any political principle was Herr Hilpert, a Communist. "He resigned when the Communist Party couldn't even get enough votes to elect a councilman," explained
Stocky, easygoing Playwright-Director Sidney Kingsley, 42, is a slow worker. He tears up nine-tenths of what he writes, and writes nothing until he has documented it with a sociologist's researching zeal...
...Federal Reserve Board's production index (1935-39 average 100) dropped two points in February to 189, five points below a year ago. The Bureau of Labor Statistics' cost of living index slipped 1.1% between Jan. 15 and Feb. 15 to 169-the greatest monthly drop in nine years (but the index was still 27% above June 1946, when OPA was killed...
...Fallen Idol (Korda; S.R.O.), when Sir Alexander Korda released it last year in London, was a tremendous hit. Most of the enthusiastic raves were for a nine-year-old, towheaded actor named Bobby Henrey. The rest of the praise went to Author Graham Greene (The Heart of the Matter), who supplied a fascinating story, and to Director Carol Reed (Night Train), who for sheer virtuosity outdid himself. Most of the uproar, it turns out, was solidly justified...
Ninety-one years have passed, but "whiggedie whellow" is as unruly and outrageous as ever, never missing a chance to roar, laugh and tear the newspaper apart. In three books just published, U.S. readers will have a grand chance to follow G.B.S. through those nine decades...