Word: ten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Schmeling, onetime world heavyweight champ, onetime Nazi paratrooper, now admitted being an ex-pug. In Berlin, he plodded through ten dull rounds, lost the decision, and announced, for the second time this year, that he would retire...
...Alsops, same day: "The first postelection question is how the Government can get through the next ten weeks...
Last week TV, the cub reporter who had cut such a figure at the Philadelphia conventions, plunged jauntily into a bigger-and what looked like an easier- assignment. Ten to 15 hours later, haggard and unshaven, he staggered away from one of the biggest and toughest political stories of a generation. The cub did a so-so job for a beginner, but nothing like the whiz-bang Philadelphia performance. The chief reason: the. conventions were shows that a TV camera could get its eye on, but an election, even an eye-opener like, this one, offered nothing much to look...
...whispers stirred in the orchestra, disjointed motifs fluttered from strings to woodwinds, like secret, anxious conversations. The survivor began his tale, in the tense half-spoken, half-sung style called Sprechstimme. The harmonies grew more cruelly dissonant. The chorus swelled to one terrible crescendo. Then, in less than ten minutes from the first blast, it was all over. While his audience was still thinking it over, Conductor Kurt Frederick played it through again, to give it another chance. This time, the audience seemed to understand it better, and applause thundered in the auditorium...
...huge, hotel-like Old Palace, where he stuffed undergraduates with good talk and anchovy toast. He became a cherished regular among the witty debaters of the Oxford Union. To eke out his meager chaplaincy allotment he began to produce smoothly written detective novels-a total of six in ten years. (He was once asked if the title page of his Bible would refer to him as "Ronald Knox, author of The Viaduct Murder...