Word: nine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...firing her [for letting one of her white students ride in a Negro bus] is undoubtedly the most shocking revelation of ignorance displayed in the South to date. But let's give Mrs. Baskin a break. She did not intend to promote interracial matrimony; she merely permitted a nine-year-old white boy to get home in time for supper...
...Senate Judiciary Committee, nine out of 15 members, led by Tennessee's Democrat Estes Kefauver and Illinois' Republican Everett Dirksen, were co-sponsoring a bipartisan constitutional amendment designed to wrap up last fortnight's historic-but informal-Eisenhower-Nixon agreement that the Vice President becomes Acting President in event of presidential disability (TIME, March 17). But doubts were mounting about whether the amendment would ever get the needed two-thirds majority in the Senate and House. Democratic Leader Lyndon Johnson was noncommittal. One key reason: the great weight Johnson places on the opinions of his fellow Texan...
...soften winter's deep freeze-and where a business slump has thrown more men out of work than in any other year since World War II-Canadians for the second time in a year are about to choose a new government. Bidding for a stronger mandate, after only nine months in office, is Tory Prime Minister John George Diefenbaker, 62. His leading challenger in the March 31 election: Liberal Leader Lester Bowles ("Mike") Pearson, 60, longtime Secretary of State for External Affairs in a government that ruled Canada for 22 years up to last June...
...clear majority, Diefenbaker needs to score major gains in the key province of Quebec, which last year elected only nine Tories among its 75 M.P.s. In this aim, he seems to have the quiet cooperation of Quebec's powerful Premier Maurice Duplessis, who never liked the Liberals even when they were led by French Canada's own Louis St. Laurent, former Prime Minister, who retired in January...
...They had seen him before, loafing while a fast field stole a 40-length lead, then blazing into the stretch-and a narrow victory-as though his tail were on fire. Could he do it again? This was the $130,500 Santa Anita Derby, and Silky was up against nine swift three-year-olds, including Old Pueblo, the last one to beat him. If he lost this time, people might suspect he was only a horse after...