Word: ten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Incredibly enough, at week's end, the Gimo's confidence seemed to be working -at least for the moment. The "ten days to three weeks" were up, and the Communists were not yet in Nanking. They had been fought to a standoff in their frontal assault at Suchow and were now shifting for another try, apparently by encirclement, from the south...
...Mukden and all Manchuria were gone-and 60% of China's best troops had gone with them. In the great rust-red plain between Nanking and Suchow, the last government armies in Central China confronted an enemy that had beaten them before. U.S. military experts had given Nanking "ten days to three weeks...
...prowler, called a sex pervert by Cambridge police, was described by girls at six Acacia st. and at Founder's House, as young, dark-haired with a crew cut, slim about five feet ten inches tall, with trance-like, shifty eyes...
...letters the terse warning: "If you can read this, you're loafing." This is where Butch Jordan conducts his daily classes in the very down-to-earth sport of wrestling and, from the looks of things, not many of his pupils are reading the sign. Jordan, a former Big Ten mat King and erstwhile captain of the Michigan wrestling team, opened official practice on the Monday after the Yale game, although several of his sweat-clothed charges were working out informally before then...
Previous to this, only 11 girls from the other three classes combined had signed up for the singles tournament, and ten for the doubles...