Word: nine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ready to tell her fortune. Mother was Margaret Dorner Connelley Watts, an ex-debutante turned saleslady (after two faded marriages) in a Manhattan East Side dress salon. Conventtrained Joanne was her only daughter (by husband No. 1), and only passport back to the glittering world of Manhattan society. Nine years ago Joanne, a ripe, 18-year-old beauty, began to see the same dazzling future that her mother saw, began to understand that a radiant smile and a certain passive sophistication (plus society friends) could conquer the social whirl...
Chandler scribbled the names of nine top L.A. businessmen on a piece of Times stationery. If each of these men would sign a bank loan for $1,500, Chandler said, he would sign for the balance. Thus was born the company which Donald Douglas engineered into the world's biggest (1956 net sales: $1,073,515,000) airframe company; Douglas set off a chain reaction that made Los Angeles the center of a $2.5 billion aircraft industry (Lockheed, North American, Northrop), as well as the base for the newer missiles and electronics industries...
...Grinning broadly, South Africa's red-faced Bobby Locke, 39, casually flicked in an 18-in. putt on the last hole at St. Andrews' Royal and Ancient Club to win his fourth British Open. Locke's score for 72 holes: 279, nine under...
Bullets & Laughter. At the height of the fighting, Ned Kelly, wearing his 94-lb. suit of homemade armor, suddenly appeared in the rear of the police lines. A contemporary newspaper account describes the scene: "Nine police joined in the conflict and fired point-blank at Kelly. It was apparent that many of the shots hit him, yet he always recovered himself, and tapping his breast, laughed derisively at his opponents as he coolly returned the fire." After half an hour of this strange battle, a police bullet found Kelly's unprotected legs and felled him, the only member...
When more drilling proved evidence of either gas or oil in nine different zones in the area, the migration that Phillips and Home Oil later turned into a rush...