Word: ten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even in the great winter-wheat fields of Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas, where the biggest crop of all time is in prospect, the growth was ten days behind schedule; farmers had been forced to replant early corn and cotton. Many had not been able to plow for row crops...
...another Omaha store, a farmer complained about the price of a living-room suite, recalling that he had paid much less for a similar suite ten or eleven years...
...What did you get for corn ten or eleven years ago?" the proprietor asked...
...years passed, ten more statues of Sarah and John M. Davis were set up in the tomb. There was Sarah as a young wife and Sarah as an old wife, standing and gazing. There was John sitting with Sarah; there was John sitting beside an empty marble chair (which bore an engraved inscription: "The Vacant Chair"). There was John kneeling on his wife's grave and Sarah, equipped with a set of wings, kneeling with a stone bouquet in one hand on the spot he had reserved for himself...
Last week George Turner's promotion stirred up a messy labor dispute. First, Turner's ten fellow constables at Billingsgate walked off their jobs (they are Corporation of London employees, distinct from London's police bobbies). Upping Turner, they insisted, was rank favoritism: each should have been given the chance to apply for the promotion. Out also went many of Billingsgate's cleaners. Conscientious Constable Turner, they angrily charged, had stooped unfairly to help the superintendent hose down a messy corner of the fish market...