Word: nine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...petition was reported favorably from Velucci's Committee on Roads and Bridges, although he had earlier vowed to keep the petition in committee "for the next nine months...
...heights coming. Just the week before, at 40, he had cleared 13 ft. with a Fiberglas pole, said that at 25 the new pole would have pushed him to 16 ft. ¶ Russia's Vassily Smyslov, an aspiring concert baritone, needed only 22 games to depose nine-year World Chess Champion Mikhail Botvinnik, 12½-9½. Anxious to meet all challengers, Smyslov expects to face no females. Says he: "They could not stay silent for five hours straight...
...following inoculation with vaccine that contained live virus (before improved testing methods were adopted by manufacturers). The child's symptoms were mild and he made a good recovery, but the father's case was severe. Martin's suit charges that he was unable to work for nine months, spent six months under treatment at Warm Springs, Ga., can now work only part time (for Lockheed Aircraft Corp.), and "still suffers and will continue to suffer for the remainder of his life very substantial physical disability...
...Tulsa courtroom, U.S. Attorney B. Hayden Crawford charged that Tulsa Tribune Reporter Nolen Bulloch, famed for his exposes of bootlegging and political corruption, had actually for nine years masterminded an underworld ring that smuggled liquor into legally dry Oklahoma (TIME, March 11). Bulloch, roared the prosecutor, was the conductor of "a streetcar named Desire-and the desire was for money." He wanted Reporter Bulloch convicted on a conspiracy charge...
...Utah, which had 56 producers of lead and zinc in 1948, is down to nine. Park City, Eureka and Stockton, once thriving mining centers, are slowly dying from shutdowns, may become ghost towns. ¶ Colorado, whose 1950 lead production was 53.5 million Ibs., turned out only 41 million Ibs. in 1956 after a 13-year low in 1955 of 31-7 million. ¶ Idaho's mine lead production in 1956 was the lowest of any year (except 1946) since 1899. The Bradley mine in Stibnite, leading U.S. producer of stibnite-antimony, a vital hardening agent for lead and alloys...