Word: ten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...exercise had its comic aspects. One load of supplies was dropped wide of its mark. When the local citizenry started to make off with it, the 505th's commander, Lieut. Colonel Robert Wienecke, hopped into a helicopter and went after them. He hovered ten feet in the air over one man who was dragging a bundle to his car, rose in his seat and trumpeted: "Go put that back." The "liberator" obeyed...
...Longtime statesman, Eton-&-Oxford-trained Robert Cecil, 54, is better known as Viscount Cranborne (the honorary title he used until he succeeded his father as the Marquess of Salisbury ten months ago). He resigned as Parliamentary Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs (along with his boss Anthony Eden) in protest against appeasement of Italy in 1938. Two years later he returned to office as Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs...
...battle was won. At next day's cabinet meeting in Rome's Viminale Palace, Mario Scelba was dominant. The ministers approved a decree which would: 1) outlaw all armed formations; 2) allow uniforms to be worn only with police permission; 3) provide for imprisonment up to ten years for having arms illegally...
Lest they feel that he is different, he scratches and squashes imaginary lice while he talks with lice-ridden Bedouins.* Contrary to pukka British practice, he lets Arab enlisted men eat from the same dishes as their officers. In 27 years among the Arabs (ten of them in Iraq), he has become known as the Arabs' great friend...
...Angeles' Children's Hospital, there was only a 100-to-1 chance that he would live. The three-hour operation was successful. When he left the operating room, Don's bluish complexion was pink. Doctors believe that Fegenbush, never able to take more than ten steps at a time, will be able to leave his wheelchair...