Word: nines
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With China lost to Communism, the free world needed a new anchor in Asia. Whether India could play that role depended largely on the chance of much closer understanding and cooperation between India and the U.S., a land almost unknown to nine-tenths of Nehru's countrymen. Washington was taking careful account of the Prime Minister's longstanding prejudice and his people's instinctive suspicion of the "imperialist West...
...encamp under his window. Next morning, after a sleepless night, Nehru contritely promised to explore their grievances. In 1947, after appealing to Delhi's citizens to open their doors to homeless Hindus from Pakistan, he put up more than a dozen families in his official residence. They stayed nine months...
Army's kickoff was returned by Noonan nine yards to the 19. John West, spelling Paul Shafer at fullback, carried six times in seven plays to bring the ball to the Army 36 before Elmer Stout intercepted a fourth-down Lowenstein pass and ran 65 yards to score. Mackmull converted again...
Among the 100 returning handsmen is Thomas L. Reynolds '20, founder and director of the first band in 1919, and nine of his original 45-piece group. This is the first full scale reunton of the Band Club, which was reorganized last year...
Under Cambridge's proportional representation voting plan, 5000 votes are ample to elect either one of the nine councilmen or a school committeeman...