Word: ten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...musician, medico and missionary, sailed for Europe en route to his jungle home, leaving a word of consolation for his sweltering New York hosts: "Don't talk to me about humidity. There's no wind in Africa and sometimes we can see the palm trees stand for ten days without a single movement of their branches...
...Roman Catholics have long felt the need for a central agency where the church could express its official views on social, economic and moral questions. Rather than set up a new agency, they decided on the reorganization of an old one: the ten-year-old bureau of information of the National Catholic Welfare Conference in Washington...
...Hawley Harvey Crippen, a London dentist, was hanged (1910) for poisoning his wife, chopping up her remains and burying them in his cellar. Henri Desire (Bluebeard) Landru was guillotined (1922) in Versailles, France, for butchering ten women...
...McCormick would pay another $4,500,000 for the Times-Herald as well. On top of the $640,000 each of the seven faithful would get from the Times-Herald sale, Waldrop drove a still shrewder bargain. He got the colonel to agree to give each of them ten shares (worth at least $35,000 a share) of the McCormick-Patterson trust stock. Times-Herald staffers wondered whether there would be any personnel changes. Said Editor Waldrop: 'You'll have to ask the colonel. He's the boss...
...After holding out for ten hours, Washington surrendered Fort Necessity, with its British garrison, to an overwhelming force of French and Indians...