Word: ten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...short and stuffy life there had never been anything like the meetings of the Subcommission on Freedom of Information and of the Press, gathered at Lake Success last week to erect an agenda for a full-dress conference next year. The ten men around the wide table made no set formalized speeches, pillowed no punches in diplomatic niceties. They flubbed parliamentary procedure and generally had a fine time talking frank talk. With one exception, they were men who had worked long at journalism. The exception was tweedy, dry-humored Zechariah Chafee Jr., Harvard professor...
...WANTED-Ten or fifteen young men to go a short distance out of the city. Single men preferred, Apply at 347 Broadway, corner of Leonard Street, between the hours of ten and four, Passage paid...
Nicaragua's Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza has never intended to be anything but boss of his country. Having been dictator for ten years, he put his own man-goat-bearded Leonardo Argüello-into the presidency only last month (TIME, May 12). Tacho himself stayed on as head of Nicaragua's U.S. Marine-trained National Guard. But things did not go exactly according to plan. President Argüello showed disturbing symptoms of independence. This week it got to be too much for Somoza. His National Guard moved in and took over the Government...
Sweden's King Gustaf, 88, home from ten weeks of embroidery (instead of tennis, by doctor's order) on the French Riviera, was looking sharp as a needle...
Will even a successful career on the fringe of journalism induce Billy to stop running? Well-he has "a really hurrah idea" for a radio program. "One of the nation's ten biggest companies," he says, has offered to sponsor it in the fall...