Word: ten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wish we could give them a big lift fast-without any strings or political oratory or pressure concerning their dominions and colonies. . . . Ten billion (her own choice of medium) and the lending (only if invited) of our ex-"dollar-a-year" men is this ex-isolationist's plea...
...article, the first of a series of six, was put together by a crew of writers who had spent ten months working over the famed collection of 900 bulging scrapbooks (TIME, Jan. 13) which Morgenthau lugged with him when he left Washington in the summer of 1945. First, Morgenthau told how Daniel W. Bell happened to become director of the budget...
Mowing a Path. One morning shortly before noon, Emma struck. Within ten hours, she mowed a 200-mile-wide path across Florida and howled out into the Gulf of Mexico...
...newsmen, Governor Tom explained that he was a guest and it would be discourteous if he said a single political word. He was simply an interested farmer (486 acres near Pawling, N.Y.). "Farming," said Tom Dewey, "has been the principal interest in my life for the last ten years." Trim and tanned (he had been getting in his hay, he said), he talked easily about the poor state of the corn crop, the merits of artificial insemination of cattle, and got his picture taken with a prize...
...sent to South America and then to New York to pass along what he had learned to "combat units, groups of seven, eight or ten...