Word: ten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...your article on Roy Roberts of the Kansas City Star [TIME, Feb. 24], you neglected to mention the great pulse of public opinion. When the Star and Times were "bedridden" it was tough not to see what Li'l Abner was doing. However, nine out of ten people then and now would drop the Star like a hot potato if any other kind of daily sheet would only come to town. The people's prayer is: please, God, send one, so we can have both sides of an issue and not have just what one paper likes shoved...
...military history has a somewhat similar incident. On May 10, 1864, Virginia Military Institute cadets were ordered into action for the battle of New Market, Va. Though ten were killed, 45 wounded, the 247 cadets charged gallantly, helped a meager Confederate force repulse Union troops who were seeking to cut the Virginia Central Railroad and thus cripple Richmond...
...Salem, Ore., ten-year-old Jerry Burns appeared before the state senate to lobby against a bill prohibiting July 4 fireworks. He complained: "It seems like nowadays everything that's any fun is dangerous or immoral or illegal...
...promise you that if my miners get an extra pound of bacon every week, the increase could be 24,000 tons of coal per day-ten times as much as would be needed to pay for this increased fat ration...
...they held the lead throughout the game. George Okamura, whom Mariaschin calls "the best little ballplayer in the league," was on top of every Leverett play, while John Brunsman's control to the backboard set up fast breaks for the Dunster five. Norm Cameron paced the Bunnies with ten points...