Word: ten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...long, hard week for Harry Truman. Each morning he chatted and chaffed his way through ten appointments, and each afternoon he thrashed about, thigh deep, in the budget. Outside his oval office early in the week an unseasonably warm sun drenched the White House's south lawn. Inside, a hustling Truman was as busily in-season as a department-store clerk in the Christmas rush...
...Deaton later recalled it: "Middleton came out just as we got there. He drew two guns and shot. I threw one on him and the shooting really began. I shot eight shots, Combs ten shots. There were 33 in all." Middleton died with ten bullets in him. Deaton, wounded slightly in the hip, was taken to the hospital...
...said. Princess Margaret answered firmly and clearly, "Charles Philip Arthur George." "I baptize thee in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost," said the Archbishop, dabbing water from the font on the baby's brow. Young Prince Charles gurgled demurely, and ten well-scrubbed choirboys in Tudor uniforms of scarlet and gold sang out O Worship the King. Afterwards there was tea and christening cake, and everyone drank the baby's health in champagne...
Nazi Field Marshal Albert Kesselring, 63, whose death sentence for war crimes (he supervised the bombing of defenseless Warsaw and supine Rotterdam) was commuted in 1947 to life imprisonment, returned to his prison after a ten-day leave, spent with his wife at a Bavarian lakeside resort. It was all "in accordance with normal penal regulations," his British keepers announced; before he went, unguarded, "Smiling Albert" had given his word that he would be back...
...ten Wisconsin students why they came to college, the odds are that nine of the centennial crop would reply, "To get a better job," or just "To get a job." When the G.I.s came back, the College of Engineering doubled in size. A new School of Commerce, set up in 1944, already has 1,235 students. Classes in philosophy are smaller than in 1940, though the university's enrollment has doubled in the same time...