Word: ten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Occupational Hazard. In Mexico City, Cobbler Inocencio Rosa Cortes took one despairing look at an impossibly battered pair of shoes, screamed, stabbed himself ten times...
...Census Bureau reports [TiME, Aug. 25] that, of the ten leading states, only Missouri dropped in population in the interim between 1940 and July 1, 1946. . . . When you consider how many residents of that state Harry Truman has commandeered and moved to Washington, B.C., one is amazed that the loss in population was only 8,414, as reported...
...Seething Stew. "[It] would mean that for ten or 15 years Moscow, not Washington, would define the issues." It would also mean asking Congress for a blank check for money and military forces to apply "counterforce" at a moment's notice-impossible to conceive of under the U.S. constitutional system, "even more unsuited to the American economy, which is unregimented and uncontrolled...
...five-deck sidewheeler with a 20,000-sq.-ft. dance floor, the Island Queen operated out of Cincinnati, where for years she had made daily summertime trips to an amusement park called Coney Island. When the Coney Island season closed on Labor Day, she went barnstorming upriver, booked ten days of excursions out of Pittsburgh...
...there is only death," sighed a dainty dancer at a huge protest rally in Shanghai's New Fairy Forest ballroom last week. A delegation of ten, led by graceful, limpid-eyed Meng Yen, queen of the Metro-Goldwyn (no kin to Hollywood) dance hall, was promptly dispatched to Nanking. From headquarters at the Security and Happiness Hotel, Yen and her henchwomen bore down on the National Economic Council, the Ministries of the Interior and Social affairs, the Legislative Yuan. Functionaries sent word that they were out, so the girls left notes...