Word: nine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your story omitted to say that there are ten couples applying for each adoptable child, and that the Damerons happen to be among the nine out of ten families whose requests cannot be met. Like all reputable agencies, we must select the one home that is best suited for each child. Our obligation is first to the child for whom we are seeking a home, and this must take precedence over all other considerations...
...Harvard XI lost to Haverford in cricket Saturday, 75 runs to 54. The Crimson was plagued by bad luck, as opening batsmen Barry Eastment and Monsoor Wharton-Ali went for six and nine runs, respectively...
...break with TV, and to the New York Journal-American gave two reasons: 1) "I never made any money in TV. I received $1,200 for Marty, and the most I ever got was a little more than $2,000 for a Philco script. One year I wrote nine full-hour shows and numerous half-hours, and made $12,000 altogether"; 2) "I ask a lot. I insist on veto power when it comes to casting. I ask for veto power on a director. I insist that nobody can change a line in my scripts except me ... Not many people...
...silly. His own "highly probable hypothesis'': the artist suffered from polyepiphyseal dysplasia, or defects at the bone ends, where growth takes place. This fitted the known facts that Toulouse-Lautrec appeared normal as an infant, had poor growth from the age of nine, thereafter had difficulty getting up from a chair, and walked in a clumsy duck waddle...
...their market value since 1955. This week, after a long, bitter campaign, the airmen will present their final arguments to the Civil Aeronautics Board for the one thing they claim will head off a serious crash: a 6% fare increase on all domestic routes, their first big raise in nine years...