Word: nine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have devoted 92 lines of the Oct. 10 Cinema section to a busty English vaudeville actress called Diana Dors, explaining in unnecessary detail the color of her lawnmower and second-hand Rolls-Royce, yet in your Milestones column you give only a scant nine lines to the memory of America's greatest young actor, James Dean, who was killed in an untimely accident...
Several times during the week the President talked business with other officials. Attorney General Brownell and Security Chief Dillon Anderson stopped in for brief appointments. Often, in the late afternoon, Presidential Assistant Sherman Adams came in with some papers for Ike to sign. For the second time in nine days, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles spent a 25-minute period at Ike's bedside. When Dulles arrived, Ike promptly ordered him to sign his "guest book": a yellow toy dog that he had received for his birthday. Then the two got down to the business at hand: last...
...counsel and performed with cool dignity the duties of her rank. But her face told a story of strain, suspense and indecision. Crowds of photographers, dogging her steps, glimpsed sometimes a young face, suffused with girlish happiness, sometimes a woman's face taut with worry. For nine out of ten successive days, the Princess managed to spend some well-chaperoned hours with Peter Townsend, usually at small, informal parties in the homes of friends. One such evening spun out until...
...unprecedented quest for top quality graduate students, J. Peterson Elder, Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, will leave Sunday for a month-long tour of nine small liberal arts colleges in the Midwest and West...
...time limit on graduate study because many GSAS students at present seem to be "treading water." He pointed out that whereas most Natural Sciences students earn their Ph.D. 's in three years, in liberal arts departments the period is often five or six years and occasionally as long as nine years...