Word: nine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Strategic Air Command. The U.S. mowed down in one day's U.N. Security Council debate the U.S.S.R.'s propaganda charges against "provocative" SAC flights over the Arctic (TIME, April 28), mustered up such a huge majority (possibly nine to one) that the U.S.S.R. withdrew the complaint. Then the U.S. called on the U.N. Security Council to reopen debate on the U.S. proposal, rejected by the U.S.S.R. last summer, for an Arctic "open skies" inspection zone...
...nine months as president of the A.B.A. have taken him more than 100,000 miles to make 180 speeches in 38 states...
Arrested by the British in Germany in 1945, Oberg and Knochen languished for nine years in Paris' Santé prison until in 1954 a Paris military court sentenced them to death as war criminals. Then came four more years in prison until finally last week French President René Coty ruled. In keeping with the general Allied policy of no longer exacting the death penalty for war crimes, he commuted the sentences of both men to life imprisonment...
Soon the truth was out. While still at sea on his nine-day trip from New York, the Cardinal had developed an ache in his right arm. At first it had been ascribed to recurrence of the "writer's cramp" he had apparently suffered in Chicago, the result of his characteristic thoughtfulness in writing personal replies to thousands of letters of congratulation on his appointment. But the ache had grown to pain, and the pain to agony...
...over their heads. Gail turns back and smiles, waving at the tottering man who threw it. Another tinkles down the walk. The red and green flag of Phi Kappa Psi looms in sight as the party enters the Wriston Quadrangle, housing the college's 17 fraternities and nine of its dormitories wedged in between them...