Word: ten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...candy face for powerful Mexican politicos and for "Yankee" reporters, but he has carefully explained his altered tactics to the faithful. In a speech in the Esperanza Iris theater, center for Soviet movies, Soviet Legation entertainment and other propaganda events, Lombardo painstakingly discussed the new tactic and justified his ten-year no-strike pledge and his pact with Mexican industrialists...
...those doing the legwork, it was a matter of finding and questioning a lot of people, big & little, who had the vital big & little facts. Gibbs groped through candlelit corridors buttonholing Government and opposition M.P.s, listened to the Commons debating fuel with four of the ten light clusters in the chambers symbolically turned off, and, to get the political reaction, read the 17,000 words sent in by the stringers in the stricken cities of Manchester, Sunderland, Leeds, Bristol, Cardiff, Bradford, Blackpool...
...whole of Los Angeles' downtown area shuddered. A light plane flying ten miles away was jolted by a sudden disturbance of the air. A florist, five miles away, heard a dull boom and saw the petals of his peach blossoms flutter to the floor. The 27-story tower of the earthquake-proof city hall shivered; windows crashed and tinkled for blocks around...
...Linguaphone Institute ventured to pick the ten U.S. cities whose citizens use the "most perfect American speech,"* made the mistake of omitting Baltimore, the home of Lexicographer H. L. Mencken. Cried he: "Anyone who advances such buncombe should be put to death immediately...
...waited less than a minute. Driving into the curve ten miles west of Altoona, Pa., the lead locomotive of the crack Pennsylvania sleeper lost its footing. With a night-splitting roar, it ground into the ties, buckled, and took off over a 55-ft. embankment, pulling with it the second locomotive, a baggage car, three Pullmans and a diner...