Word: nine
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Whatever "shoe" may be, this fellow said Dick Winterbauer was it. This Winterbauer threw 12 passes, completing nine of them. Three went for touchdowns, and he gained 165 yards, or 14 more than Harvard gained, running and passing, in the entire contest. Winterbauer played about thirty minutes...
...city council began simply: "We the undersigned wish to live in the city of Tuskegee." The 760 signers were former Negro citizens of Tuskegee, Ala. (pop. 4,700), who last July saw their homes jigsawed out of the city limits by the state legislature. The gerrymander bill left exactly nine Negro voters within the city limits (instead of 420), touched off a Negro boycott of white merchants. "My God," said a council member as he reviewed the petition for readmittance last week.'Tf we back down now, we'll lose the whole works." The petition was promptly turned...
Sentenced to 30 years' imprisonment, plus $3,000 in fines, by a federal court in New York City: stony-faced Colonel Rudolf Ivanovich Abel, 55, who, posing as an artist, served for nine years as one of the top Red spies in the U.S., until federal agents searched his Brooklyn studio and found an array of such spy-novel devices as hollowed-out coins and cuff1 links (TIME, Aug. 19 et seg.). Under the law, Abel could have been sentenced to death, but Judge Mortimer W. Byers apparently heeded the defense attorney's arguments that Abel might talk...
Last week, despite the protests of writers from all over the world, including T. S. Eliot, Jean-Paul Sartre, Albert Camus and even French Communist Poet Louis Aragon,* the puppet dictatorship of Janos Kadar sentenced Tibor Dery to nine years in prison for his revolutionary activities. Sentenced along with him were three other famed members of the Writers' Union: Playwright Gyula Hay, Journalist Tibor Tardos, Poet Zoltan Zelk, who wrote in a widely quoted poem...
Despite a record of no wins and nine losses, Straus South is confident of victory...