Word: ten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tone of most of them was thoughtful, decent and concerned. They ranged from college undergraduates anticipating families of their own to a Midwestern farmer who is head of a line of ten living children, 42 grandchildren, 48 great grandchildren. Many told their hopes and plans for having more children. Many more discussed the contribution they expected their children to make some day to their country's future. Over all they expressed a vigorous satisfaction with a family life that, despite its difficulties, they "wouldn't exchange for anything...
Hold the Phone. Beirne, picked by the U.S. Junior Chamber of Commerce as one of ten outstanding young men of 1946 for his "mature responsibility as a labor leader," had begun negotiating in January. He is a determined and militant young man, a high-school graduate, who worked as a drill-press operator, department-store clerk, went to night school and leaped into labor politics as a district union representative...
...After ten bitter weeks of hearings and debate, the Senate finally came to grips with the Lilienthal appointment. Ohio's John Bricker provided the opportunity. He had offered a motion to send the nomination of David E. Lilienthal as chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission back to committee. If the motion carried, the chances were that Lilienthal would never be confirmed. If the motion was lost...
...A.G.R.S. recovery teams soon found that they had to become rivermen, mountain climbers, explorers, bush diplomats and detectives. A.G.R.S. men, almost one-third of them Chinese-Americans, went out in groups of from three to ten. They traveled by jeep, mule, native pony, oxcart, sampan or on foot, were almost always supplied by air. Some of them headed west of Chungking toward Tibet, and into mountain country which no white man had ever explored. Others battled leech-ridden jungles and flooded rivers; one group swam a swollen stream to find the bodies of a B-29 crew, swam back, pushing...
...play's average American hero is Smith, a newspaperman. The average American villain is his employer, a publisher named Charles MacPherson, who is a mixed incarnation of Hearst, McCormick and Rasputin. He sends little Harry Smith to Moscow with orders to write a book on ten reasons why the Russians want war. However, relates Hero Smith: "In Russia I became ashamed of myself-of all us people who dish up poison to Americans with their breakfast every morning." Result: Smith returns with a book on ten reasons why the Russians don't want war, and is promptly fired...