Word: ten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seize upon. Two Marxist books, entered as evidence, were shown to the jurors, and they thumbed through them. Up popped bald, stooped Lawyer Abraham Isserman to protest: "I would like to have the record note that the examination of the exhibits occupied a period of time of about ten minutes and in that time the jurors did not read the documents...
...taken "Buddy" Kaye a long time to come to that summary. He started grinding out lyrics soon after he graduated from Brooklyn's James Madison High School, but in his first ten years at it he netted only pretzel money from his 150 songs. He lived by playing the saxophone in Chinese restaurants and beer parlors. In 1945, after he had peddled and pushed Till the End of Time into a hit (with help from Chopin and Tunesmith Ted Mossman), he decided that he had the formula: "Writing the song is only 10% of it; the rest is purely...
...write plays while still at Cornell. He spent three years, much of it living with interns, on his first play, Men in White ("That was a longie"). It won the 1933 Pulitzer Prize. Then, in the same blend of melodrama and social conscience, came Dead End (1935), Ten Million Ghosts (1936), The World We Make...
Woof. A.B.S. promptly accepted the challenge; it opened its own London office and this week appointed its own surveyors in ten British and Irish ports. The London Daily Express, watchdog of the empire, let out an angry woof: "Ai at Lloyd's [Register] is under fire from the U.S. The men who run America's ships want to ... replace it with an O.K. of their...
...white frame laboratory on an outpost of the Essar Ranch near San Antonio, an intense young scientist is operating on a partially anesthetized cow. He injects a local anesthetic into a shaved area on the flank, swabs it with alcohol and makes an incision. Ten minutes later he sews up the incision. The cow is only a scrub from the range of a nearby rancher-but if all goes well she will bear a calf which has two pedigreed parents...