Word: ten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cited for contempt ten Hollywood writers and producers for refusing to testify during its Un-American Activities Committee hearings on Communism in the movie industry (TIME...
Last June 23 the State Department, goaded by Congress, summarily dismissed ten employees for disloyalty. It did so without a hearing, without telling the dismissed what the charges were, and without giving them the right of appeal...
Last week the Department, goaded by public opinion, reversed itself-to a degree. Three of the ten had already been allowed to resign "without prejudice." Still refusing to divulge the charges, on the ground of security, State now extended the same privilege to the remaining seven, "to avoid a possible injustice to them." By now the Department has set up a more elaborate system of hearings and appeals. For the future, the State Department was "taking all steps" to provide dismissed employees with the right of appeal to the new Loyalty Review Board...
...Turn your head and count ten," said Washington Socialite Mrs. Augusta Trimble Fletcher, as she greeted a guest in her library. The guest obeyed, then whirled at the sound of a shot. His hostess had killed herself...
...Communist areas, the turnout was rather small. Finally, since more than 95% of the Chinese people can neither read nor write, many a voter had to accept help in marking his ballot from friendly fellows who hung around the polls. It was going to take a week or ten days to tabulate the results...