Word: ten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dealer in the border counties. "Certainly," said James, making a clean breast of the business, "I ran the advertisement. The cats are for veterinary research schools in London. But I get only strays. Sure, I know most of the cats in the district, and as for their being only ten left, that's nonsense. Why," he added indignantly, "I met seven in the main street only this morning and every one looked as happy as larry...
...even skin them." From Carrick to Ballyshannon and back to Castleblayney the old maids nodded and locked up their pets. "Men are even stealing cats to sell to the British," said one woman to a TIME correspondent last week. "Do you know," said another, "there are only ten cats left in Carrickmacross...
Three thousand desert dervishes in flowing abbayas streamed into town on camels, horses and rickety provincial trains. Ten thousand Sudanese jammed the big dusty square before the stuccoed, white-domed tomb, brightening the drab town with pink, blue, yellow and green galabias (skirted garments). For the first time since the Mahdi's victory over Gordon, big black, green and red banners, bearing the silver crescent, and dervish spear, danced overhead. Inside the tomb enclosure, women rocked and swayed over big rawhide drums, wailing mournful tunes in high-pitched tones...
...graves were in a mound, one of two dozen on the outskirts of Nebaj, at the end of a winding new road, ten hours from Guatemala City. The local Indians, descendants of the ancient Mayans whose bones rested below, make daily sacrifices of flowers and incense before the mounds, while praying to their curious pantheon: to rain and wind gods of their old faith, and to Dios and Maria of the Catholicism they have since embraced...
When he was ten a wealthy woman on San Francisco's Pacific Avenue began to finance his training. He made the local circuit: recitals in private homes, luncheon, solos, a formal recital in Veterans' Auditorium. In 1937 he was ready for Manhattan and Town Hall-or thought he was. Hiring the hall and paying for the trip cost his sponsor $1,500. Says Isaac: "I hired an accompanist, had three rehearsals. I should have had a tested program which I'd played on the road and had embedded in my fingertips. A concert like...