Word: nine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...experts debated the question of whether to go on testing nuclear weapons, thousands of U.S. Protestant churchmen and churchwomen lined up last week on the stop-the-tests side. Items: ¶A widely assorted 140 Protestant clergymen and educators, including nine bishops, signed an appeal to all Christians to back up the Central Committee of the World Council of Churches in its declaration against testing (TIME, Aug. 12). Among the signers: Methodist Bishops Charles W. Brashares of Chicago, Eugene M. Frank of St. Louis and John Wesley Lord of Boston; the Right Rev. W. Appleton Lawrence, retired Episcopal Bishop...
...squarely on top of his head, a cigar grew out of the right corner of his mouth, and he glinted at the world through rimless, hexagonal glasses. Readers of Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express could spot him at a glance: he was "the loud American." For the past nine years he has swaggered regularly through the frontpage, one-column panel drawn by one of England's most popular cartoonists: urbane, grandly mustached Osbert Lancaster, London clubman, stage designer, critic of architecture (Pillar to Post...
Last week in Lancaster's cartoonland appeared a new brand of American-conservatively dressed, restrained in mien and look (see cut). Explained Lancaster in an article: "On arriving in New York after an absence of nine years, I found that I had been propagating a version of the typical American which was founded on a hopelessly out-of-date model. The old self-confident, easily bamboozled, back-slapping persona is a figure of the past...
...Idyll, a nine-year-old girl is picked up by a charming psychopath who has escaped from a mental hospital. Why would a youngster living in a peaceful English village with devoted, decent parents find such an acquaintance rewarding? The answer lies in a bracketed look at 1) the parents' possessive dullness, 2) the child's imagination and romantic thirst for life, brought into play for the first time when the madman's own imagination reaches out in sympathy and need. Conventionally, this ominous encounter ends well after a long spell of breath-holding on the part...
This was the first varsity win over Penn in three years. The Quakers have an exceptionally strong team this year, with a season record of nine and two. Columbia, whose record is 4-4, has little golf talent except for their number one man, and is playing league golf for the first time this year...