Word: ten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Audience Reaction. In Asbury Park, N.J., Lawrence Godfrey took a good, long look at a television shot of a nearby crowd, hustled out and found his man, collected the $10 that had been owing him for ten years...
...ten, home in bed with a cold, to "My darling Mumkin and Pap: Good morning I hope you have used Pear's Soap and are flourishing now . . . you will be horrified to hear that my temperature is 150°-But really I have got a 'petit rhume' only...
...dame in the bunch & said 'howdy?' Things at once went like oil & I was soon having flirtations with three of the nobility at the same time ... I inspected the gardens with another 'chawmer' & ended up by jollying the hostess herself all by her lonesome for ten minutes while a uniformed Lord stood by & never got in anything except an occasional...
...crops. The last good sod-soaking rain had been in September's first week. From the north Texas and Oklahoma wheat plains came disturbing news: planting was far behind schedule; some farmers were seeding dusty fields. There were no critical spots yet, but if the next week or ten days brought no rain, there might be. The rich wheat belt waited anxiously, almost as anxiously as the world's hungry people waited for U.S. grain...
...thing that neither time nor politics has changed is Massachusetts' official stand on the 1927 execution of famed Radicals Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti. Ten years ago Democratic Governor Charles F. Hurley curtly rejected the offer of a bronze bas-relief, designed by the late mountain-sculpturing Gutzon Borglum, as a memorial to "the good shoemaker and the poor fish peddler." Last week Republican Governor Robert F. Bradford just as firmly turned it down again. This time the committee that offered it to the state was headed by Harvard Professor Arthur M. Schlesinger...