Word: ten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...party Estimates Committee which had examined on the spot a $220 million plan for Nigerian development. The committee found (and the Commons debate tended to confirm): "[The plan] does not propound a complete strategy of development. It is merely an aggregate of proposals for spending the money. If the ten-year plan were carried out overnight . . . improvement . . . would be barely perceptible...
...Britain's "last chance" empire was a recent scene in the slums of Accra, Gold Coast colony. A young native sprawled sullenly in the shade of a tin-roofed shack, cluttered with goats, baskets, buckets and children. Out of the dry dusty litter a pigeon loft reared up ten feet into the hot air. "I fight in war," said the young native. "I discharged. Money gone. No work. No go back up country." He slumped farther back in the shade of the pigeon loft. Said a white colonial official: "There's food for Communism...
...Ten Hours for Lunch. What devaluation means to the average Mexican is something else. With devaluation, prices of imported articles go up forthwith. Then up go prices of domestic articles which depend on foreign raw materials. Prices of purely domestic articles follow suit, because even tortilla vendors would like to own a radio...
...average Mexican worker makes 1 peso 25 centavos an hour. At that rate, at pre-devaluation prices, he had to work ten hours to buy lunch for a family of five, 72 hours to pay an average rent in the center of the city, 160 hours to buy a suit of clothes...
...motion on the ground that it would start a flood of others. Other Menckenisms filed to the Sun (on Henry Wallace): "If ... he suddenly sprouts wings and begins flapping about the hall, no one will be surprised"; (on Vice Presidential Nominee Glen Taylor): "Soak a radio clown for ten days and ten nights in the rectified juices of all the cow-state Messiahs ever heard of, and you will have him to the life"; (on the convention): "The percentage of downright half-wits has been definitely lower than in, say, the Democratic Convention...