Word: nine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sent to England for his education by a grandfather who was an ardent Anglophile. The processing began at a Spartan boarding school in Berkshire, where he was drilled with a wooden rifle at sunup by a World War I sergeant major, introduced to Latin at eight and Greek at nine...
Down went nine automobiles, one a $100,000 sports-car prototype hand-built in Turin for the Chrysler Corp. Down went 1,764 bags of mail, together with crates of antiques and cases of vintage wines. When the writhing sea was still, the Coast Guard cutter Evergreen dropped a temporary tombstone: a yellow marker buoy...
...Nine nations-Cambodia, Nationalist China, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Laos, the Philippines, Thailand and Viet Nam-got $767 million in U.S. economic and technical assistance in fiscal 1956, the International Corporation Administration reported last week. South Korea, which maintains 20 army divisions, got the biggest slice: $327 million...
...clerk in the Royal West African Frontier Force, Zik passed up Oxford or Cambridge to enroll in West Virginia's Storer College. Supplementing his original stake (his father's $1,200 retirement gratuity) with jobs as a coal miner, busboy and dishwasher, Zik spent nine years in the U.S., wound up with an M.A. in anthropology and government from the University of Pennsylvania...
What angered the insurgents was the fact that Virginia-Carolina's sales in 1955 were down 9.3% to $77 million annually. In the past nine months V-C profits slipped 50% to $329,000. Furthermore, V-C had never paid a dividend to common stockholders, while funneling out $17 million since 1946 to preferred stockholders (largely Allied Chemical & Dye Corp., also a good customer). Insurgents also criticized the fact that President Howell had a big stock option in addition to his $78,000 annual salary, reportedly made more than $100,000 in the past 20 months...