Word: ten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ten weeks the delegates in Paris had worked hard, consulting charts and tables and their own political feelings. The difficulties were great. They had finished their report, however, in apparent unanimity, persuaded that they had better hang together or they would hang separately...
...swivel chair, laced his stubby fingers behind his head, contemplated, something in the vicinity of his belt buckle, and spoke form the right side of his mouth in all seriousness, "Why would I want to fool you fellows? These program weights were all taken last sprig and are about ten pounds more than they should...
...nursing leg injuries for the past week, Pratt hasn't showed up yet, and Gurley, Captain-elect of the track team, is definitely out for the current cross country season because of a heavy academic schedule. Additional time trials will be held next week, but according to Jaakko, the ten or twelve top men in the Handicap race today will be the ones who will face Holy Cross and M.I.T. a week from tomorrow...
When Cuban Army tank and armored-car crews stopped the shooting three hours later, Tro and three supporters were dead. So was the pregnant wife of the house owner. Another man died later of wounds. A ten-month-old baby and eleven others were wounded. The shooting had lasted long enough for a movie cameraman to record it in detail. Army Chief Genovevo Perez Damera saw the film, denounced the affair as a "monstrous assassination." He ordered Salabarria and several of his followers charged with murder and began a general roundup of Salabarria partisans...
Cash In. For his services, Eaton and associates got a 10% commission on the bonds and 2,000,000 shares of Steep Rock stock from the company at 1? per share (it was then selling for close to $1). He then trussed up Steep Rock to a ten-year contract to sell all its ore to Premium Iron Ores, Ltd. Premium in turn purchased 800,000 shares of Steep Rock at $2.50 a share to provide working capital...