Word: ten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week, Murphy, with his minutiae, Stryker, with his clients' stubborn avowal of innocence, faced the jury of two women, ten white-collar workers and businessmen. What Chambers had called a "tragedy of history" was near judgment and the bitter...
John McCloy saw a long, tough job ahead of him. Said he: "There can be no solution in Germany in three months, six months or a year. Even if progress takes ten years, it is good...
...cloud-flecked hills and stark rusted cranes of the former naval base as backdrop. The 2,000 lined up rigidly, listened stonily to the effusive greetings, responded with chilling precision. A close-cropped ex-army captain stepped stiffly forward. "Some of us," he barked, "have not seen home in ten years. All of us have been prisoners for four. We have made the greatest sacrifice." The 2,000 chorused: "Sono tori [exactly]!" The captain barked: "Full of hope, we have come to build a new democratic Japan on the Potsdam agreement." The men thundered: "Yoshi [good...
...estimated unproved reserves of the new Canadian fields at a whopping 20 billion barrels, contrasted to 5-15 billion barrels in Mexico. Furthermore, Ball saw the $200 million loan sought by Mexico as just a starter. Since Mexico had drilled an average of 35 wells annually in the last ten years, and "it might take 10,000 or more" to develop the fields fully, the eventual cost might run from $2 to $4 billion. The U.S. "cannot afford" to lend that much money, especially since chances are slim that Mexico's monopoly could...
System. In Joliet, Ill., Otis Wendling, a prize safe driver for ten years, revealed that good driving is easy: the trick is to "drive defensively, as if other drivers are dangerous maniacs...