Word: ten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...moved into a handsome ten-room mansion in Clarksburg, puttered with a valuable collection of jade in his off-hours and tended two hutches of black & white squirrels. The two Johnson girls grew up and moved away...
...thrust through the front living room window; the crash of falling glass was drowned out by a double blast. A spray of lead pellets the size of peas ripped Vic Reuther's head and right shoulder-his shattered eyeglasses and his dental bridge flew to the rug ten feet away. Slowly he rose, clutched his bleeding face, then fell to the floor crying, "Call an ambulance." Sophie Reuther called police, then rushed screaming into the dark, empty street...
...Czechs enjoy their monthly look at Amerika as much as their Russian neighbors do, it will be a sellout. For more than four years, Amerika has been the only U.S. magazine widely circulated in the U.S.S.R. At ten rubles ($1.23), the 50,000 copies of Amerika's Russian edition get thumbed by about 1,000,000 So. viet citizens. In the first Czech issue of Amerika, readers will find 72 pages of reprints from the Russian, ranging from the 4-H Clubs to Radio City, and from Thomas Jefferson to James Thurber...
...conditions under which Amerika is produced would daunt many another editor. Articles and captions for each Russian issue are written in English in Amerika's twelfth-floor Manhattan offices, then flown to Moscow for translation and censorship. There unpredictable Soviet bureaucrats sometimes take ten days, sometimes ten weeks, to approve an issue before returning it to the U.S. to be printed and shipped back to Moscow. This long, fluctuating deadline means that most stories and pictures must be "timeless Americana." But out of 3,000,000 words, Moscow has deleted only about...
Soccer is a vital part of the British way of life. Each Thursday in season, ten million Britons get a coupon listing the week's games. With sport pages of the papers spread before him and the family kibitzing, the fan makes his selections and his bet (from one penny up) in the weekly "pool." Led by the big three-Little-wood's, Vernon's and Copes's-the pools take in a staggering $250 million a year and rank as Britain's seventh industry...