Word: nine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year-old schoolteacher who speaks excellent English and whose only ambition-until the elders tapped him last September-was to go to England to study. The son of a slave freed by French Roman Catholic missionaries, Edward herded cattle until he was nine, then, as his father's "love son" (or favorite), was sent to school. Converted to Catholicism, he ignored most of the various age rituals of the Masai (e.g., Masai aged 17-27 take turns sleeping in the communal hut with the tribe's unmarried women), frankly admitted: "I didn't want this...
...authority over Kowloon City while staying out of it, letting the jungle govern itself. But last month, when a police constable was attacked and a heroin-parlor attendant stabbed to death, exasperated Hong Kong cops finally moved in on the town. In one night they arrested 150 people, and nine-man patrols began nightly dawn-to-dusk raids, concentrating on the narcotics trade...
...chairman (1930-50) of Continental Can, who in his long (1912-58) career broadened the use of can containers, steadily increased the number of his plants, boosted sales from $70 million in 1933 to $398 million in 1950, as a liberal-minded businessman headed and whipped into action the nine-man committee appointed to reorganize the Stock Exchange, saw his own recommendations embodied in the Exchange of today; in Lake Placid...
...nine Negro youths were arrested for allegedly raping two itinerant white prostitutes in an Alabama freight car, were dragged through interminable trials that included all the cliches of racial conflict: openly bigoted judges, brutal cops, a sullen courthouse mob. The case aroused nationwide protests against the South's double standard of justice, encouraged the Communists to exploit the racial bitterness and provoke a bloody race incident in Alabama. After six years in prison, Roy Wright and three of his companions were finally freed after the state dropped charges. Under public pressure, four others were eventually paroled, and one escaped...
...years ago, when Doubleday published three early Max Shulman novels in a single volume, the editors boasted: "Although these three books were written by Shulman at the age of eight, critics have pointed out that they show the insight and penetration of a man of nine." Now Humorist Shulman, 40, has advanced into the double-digit years. But his characters still uniformly resemble the Spock troops...