Word: ten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...track by hardy Greek soldiers to achieve that end. How much would it take? No one was sure, but last week the U.S. Navy provided a clue. It announced that it was sending enough U.S. Marines to its Mediterranean force (the big aircraft carrier Midway, three light cruisers and ten destroyers) to beef it up to full normal manpower...
...boots and bought everything he could find for sale. His purchases: one wolf trap; one wolfhound; two accordions; one well-preserved Egyptian mummy; one plaster bust of Julius Caesar; five tombstones; 100 quarts of bug poison. When he heard he would have to give up his remaining rubles at ten for one, he was so upset he stumbled over his wolf trap, upsetting a tombstone which broke a bottle of bug poison, the fumes of which drove his wolfhound...
...with Porcus, a pig, presiding. Porcus (dramatically sung by Tenor Joseph Laderoute) screams his charges and denunciations, and the chorus howls "Hérétique! . . . Sorcière!" Joan finally dies in a flaming burst of music from chorus and orchestra. After a stunned pause, the audience demanded ten curtain calls of cast and conductor...
...Louis, which takes its sports more calmly than most cities, has finally been smitten by basketballitis, a highly contagious disease which has been running up & down the Midwest for ten years. One night last week, a record 11,216 people pushed & shoved into Kiel Auditorium; 3,000 more were turned away. The crowds wanted to see unbeaten St. Louis U. playing Holy Cross, a storybook basketball squad that practiced in an old barn, traveled 40 miles to Boston to play its "home" games, and became 1947's team of the year. Holy Cross had been beaten only once...
Easy Ed scored ten of the points against Holy Cross. Since last season, when he was the whole team, his burden has been lightened. St. Louis hired a new coach, Edgar Hickey, who installed the fast-break system and designed plays to take some of the point-making pressure off Big Ed Macauley. With improved teamwork, St. Louis has breezed past seven rivals. If the next three-Oklahoma A. & M., Long Island University and Notre Dame-can be hurdled, the worst will be over...