Word: ten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bitter Pill. Less than ten hours later, the weary legislators returned to vote on the gold proposal. Premier Schuman staked his government's survival on the measure, gave the Socialists a clear choice. With the Communists and the Gaullists eagerly waiting for the coalition government to prove its incompetence to rule, the Socialists decided to stick with Schuman. Schuman's margin: a comfortable 98 votes...
...Havana's broad Malecon, sweating drivers pushed automobiles toward service stations and into queues that were sometimes ten blocks long. Desperate motorists waited all night to get their ration of three gallons when gasoline pumps opened in the morning. More than half of Havana's automobiles were garaged for lack of gas. Milk deliveries were cut, taxis almost vanished, and black-market fuel sold as high as $1.20 a gallon...
...afternoon last week, before a scant ten members of the House of Deputies, Deputy Pomar stood up and read a rousing, 2,000-word manifesto from Communist Leader Luis Carlos Prestes. It was a statement of party position and a call to arms: "We must block the march of reaction . . . resist without weakening . . . fight for our rights. . . We must organize in our places of work, in the mills, on the farms . . . resorting when necessary to strikes. . . Prove to your fellow workers the real necessity of fighting and resisting the government of hunger, the government of political terror. . . We must fight...
...become a painter and her sister a pianist. For hours, the two little girls struggled wretchedly over their lessons. One day, when their parents were out, they decided to switch. Nicole sat down at the piano and just started to play. She first played in public before she was ten, has been playing ever since...
...neutron stars and gravitational lenses. Various theories of stellar evolution tell how stars may be born and decline to stellar senility. Zwicky thinks that the last stage may be a star made up chiefly of neutrons. Since neutrons are very much denser than atoms, such stars might be only ten miles in diameter. Every cubic centimeter of their volume would weigh, Zwicky figures, about one million tons...