Word: ten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...what did that amount to? Ernie Bevin wanted to know. Russia was willing to take 10% less, Molotov replied. "Ten percent less than what?" asked Bevin. Molotov, (deadpan): "Ten percent less than has been agreed at Potsdam...
...Delegate Jan Drohojowski, who had walked in & out of the conference in a constant huff, saw a last-minute chance for what he considered a crack at the U.S. He said he hoped that next year the delegates, "especially when they visit the neighboring Holy Land, will obey the Ten Commandments and not bow down to the Golden Calf...
...high noon on May 10, 1940-the day Hitler's Panzer divisions began their drive toward France-from the cloudless sky over ancient Freiburg a thin drone insisted. The burghers were not alarmed. They glanced skyward, expecting to watch another Luftwaffe observation plane drift toward the French border ten miles to the west. Instead, they saw a formation of planes, sweeping in at great altitude from the north. Seconds later, the burghers and their women and children ran for cover, shrieking. Terror bombing of undefended cities on the western front had begun...
Three Manhattan judges, after deliberating for seven minutes, decided that blonde cigarette girl Patricia Miles had not proved that Howard Hughes's kewpie-like party boy Johnny Meyer was the father of her ten-month-old son. She thus lost her suit for support. "Through with women?" said the happy victor, in response to a query from the press. "I love 'em all." Miss Miles wondered aloud: What next? "I haven't got $2 to my name...
...paid $30 for seats euphemistically marked "ringside." They didn't really expect to see a fight. They had come to see the one & only Joe Louis, the famed Brown Bomber who had knocked out 21 of the 23 men who challenged his heavyweight title in the past ten years-and this might be his last appearance. Nobody knew or cared much about the man Big Joe was fighting. Even the champ, who is honest clear through, admitted that his foe-old Jersey Joe Walcott-was a second-rater...