Word: nine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lloyd told the council. "The hard problems lie ahead." The hardest problem was right on hand-both Fawzi and Russia's Dmitry Shepilov balked at reviving the point of international control. There was little more to be said, so just before midnight the council came to the vote. Nine delegates voted for all the Anglo-French resolution, but Shepilov, with Yugoslavia's Koca Popovic for company, cast Russia's veto against the section calling for international control. The result: the council endorsed only the "six principles" as the basis for further efforts to find a real solution...
...Lozano. From behind, some barefoot kids stole up and pelted the policemen with banana and orange peels. Furious, the squad's commander pulled out a pistol and fired into the crowd. A woman screamed. The rest of the cops opened up, mostly firing wild. One man was killed, nine persons wounded...
...chain-store competition, many chain operators have found that Sunday volume has become too big to jettison. A big Arkansas supermarket operator who returned to the six-day week found that receipts dropped 40%. In Indianapolis, after agreeing to close on Sundays, the Kroger chain was forced to reopen nine of its 16 markets...
Just a year ago, Birdseye returned to the U.S. after two years in Peru, with another triumph to his credit: a method of converting sugar cane wastes to paper pulp in twelve minutes v. nine hours for the old process. Though he suffered from heart trouble and had to lead a strictly regulated life for the past 20 years, he said: "Still other ventures are afoot, and the days are not long enough for me to take advantage of all the opportunities...
When asked "What does a tailor do?" the Oriental children are apt to answer: "Slaughters chickens." "makes shoes," or "builds houses." While in a fourth-grade reading test the Europeans missed only one word in every nine lines, the Orientals flubbed eleven. In a special intelligence test given 13-year-olds, the Europeans scored 51 out of a possible 60. The scores for the Kurds and Yemenites...