Word: ten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wisely aiding, Dewey meant wisely administering. There must be a change in method. Ten times during his 3,000-word speech, ex-Prosecutor Dewey indicted the administration for its "serious economic and diplomatic blunders...
Thompson casually admitted that he was no great shakes as a navigator anyhow. He was actually just a pilot-navigator. But he had boned up on the subject and relied on ten years of experience as a yachtsman. He had flown the Atlantic round trip only once before, had never heard of radioed wind and weather broadcasts from New York...
...Right. The question: Should the R.P.F., which was not quite six months old, risk its prestige and its future by putting up candidates in the October municipal elections? Ten of the twelve spoke against it as premature. The movement, they said, was not sufficiently organized, candidates for all municipalities could not be found in time, a defeat at the polls would be fatal. Malraux proposed a compromise: an R.P.F. slate in two cities only, Paris and Algiers. Then the eleven lieutenants looked at the tall, slow-moving, impassive man who had galvanized and symbolized France's will to live...
...back in Rumania, illegally. She was arrested for "subversive activities endangering the security of the state." On that occasion a policeman shot and wounded her ; the bullet is still in her leg. She had served five years of a ten-year sentence when, in a 1941 exchange of prisoners between Russia and Rumania, Moscow asked for and got Ana; she became a Soviet citizen. About that time her husband disappeared. (His probable fate: execution as a Trotskyite after Ana turned him in to Soviet police.) Their son, Vlad, is in the Rumanian Army. Daughters Tanya and Marie are in school...
Rainfall that bit a regional high of ten inches proved unmanageable to Cambridge street drains elogged with fallen leaves. Houses reported cellar conditions ranging from dampened to partially flooded...