Word: tenths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...votes last week from former students and their families.) In 1946 Democrat Long was appointed territorial public-welfare director, and he was Acting Governor during the turbulent pineapple workers' strike of 1947 and the longshoremen's strike of 1949. President Truman appointed him tenth territorial Governor in 1951, and he held office unobtrusively until displaced by a Republican (Samuel Wilder King in 1953). Long has held office as territorial Senator since 1956. He felt so confident of his election to the Senate that he took a one-week sabbatical after the primary to attend an international Lions convention...
...London Sir Winston Churchill, 84, popped up at the christening of his tenth grandchild, cherubic little Rupert Christopher Soames, two months, son of Britain's Secretary of State for War Christopher Soames and Churchill's daughter Mary. "He's beautiful," murmured Sir Winston. Observed proud Papa Soames: "The new baby looks awfully like Sir Winston-but then, so do most babies...
...enough for an underfed quintet, is crammed on the other side; stained, plastic-topped tables and rachitic chairs crowd the floor. The capacity, when everyone is inhaling, comes close to 200, and strangely, the crowd is always close to capacity. This week the Black Hawk is edging into its tenth year as one of the nation's top resorts for modern jazz, the club that launched such cool cats as Dave Brubeck and Gerry Mulligan. Says CoOwner Guido Caccienti: "I've struggled for years to keep this place a sewer...
...tenth day of the hadj began the joyous feast of El Idha, commemorating Abraham's near sacrifice of his son Isaac, and Ahmed walked with his fellow pilgrims to the nearby village of Mina, where each must sacrifice an animal. Some 500,000 beasts are imported each year; ordinary pilgrims cut the throat of a goat for about $20; the rich may kill a cow or even a camel. The meat is supposed to be distributed to the poor, but for want of transport, thousands of carcasses are left rotting on the ground. The Saudi Arabian government is considering...
...Department-store sales in the week ending June 13 were 3% over last year, despite a sales-crippling newspaper strike in St. Louis. Fairchild News Service's own survey, covering specialty shops as well as department stores, showed a sales jump of 4% over the preceding week, the tenth such weekly rise. Another big reason for confidence is that manufacturers this year took pains to study their market. Many sent their designers on nationwide tours to sound out stores and shoppers on the kind of clothes women want to buy. The consensus: the U.S. woman does not want novelties...