Word: nine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Preparing for the next move, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People filed an appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit in St. Louis. Meanwhile, the N.A.A.C.P. asked Judge Lemley for a stay of execution to allow the remaining seven of the original nine Negro students at Central High (one girl was expelled last February, studied in New York City; one boy graduated last fortnight, is entering Michigan State University) to stay on at Central High next September and thereafter until the final word from...
...chief observer, New Zealand's Lieut. Colonel Maurice Brown, promised to have the 100 spotters that Hammarskjold wanted (from nine countries) at work by week's end. From four outposts scattered throughout Lebanon, Brown sent them out in pairs of white U.N. jeeps to "see and hear." Later he hopes to add four light planes and two helicopters (offered by the U.S.) for his spotters. When Lebanese officials complained that such small, unarmed patrols could not stop infiltrators, Ecuador's ex-President Galo Plaza Lasso, one of the U.N.'s three supervisory commissioners, explained...
From Cornwall went the cable: FOOT, GOVERNMENT HOUSE, CYPRUS: SEE SECOND CORINTHIANS FOUR VERSES EIGHT AND NINE. On Cyprus, Sir Hugh Foot, 50, Britain's hard-pressed Governor, opened his Bible to the passage his father, Isaac, had indicated...
From then on, Editor Frank I. Cobb ran the editorial page and Swope ran the World. Though the great Joseph Pulitzer had been dead for nine years, the World was still shaped to his image: cocky, crusading, colorful. Swope and the World were well matched. A solid six-footer with a thatch of red hair, Swope stalked grandly through the city room swinging his massive walking stick, peering at his staffers through a tiny pince-nez, and driving home his dictum: "Pick out the best story of the day and then hammer the living hell...
Irmgard Seefried Sings (accompanied by Erik Werba; Decca). Schumann's Frauenliebe und Leben and nine songs by Mozart sung with grace, liquid power and a rainbow of colorations that few singers can match. With a fine dramatic sense to match her voice, Soprano Seefried makes this one of the year's most appealing recorded song recitals...