Word: nine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Washington last week, after nine months of palaver and planning, the North Atlantic allies signed the Military Assistance Pacts for the defense of Western Europe. A billion dollars in U.S. arms and equipment will soon be moving across the Atlantic. High military missions will be interchanged. This week the Pentagon will name the senior American officers who will supervise the program abroad...
Socialist's Beginning. Clement Richard Attlee was born (1883) into a staid, middle-class family in Putney, a staid, middle-class suburb in the southwest section of London. He was tutored at home until he was nine years old-first by his mother, and later by a governess, a Miss Hutchinson, one of whose earlier pupils she remembered as a "strongwilled child" named Winston Churchill. Attlee went off to boarding school at nine, and he has described his subsequent years in terms remarkably like Churchill's account of his own school days. Wrote Attlee...
...Thus ignoring nine other Michaels among his putative imperial ancestors, including Michael III (the Drunkard) and Michael IV (the Tickler). Michael IV was valet to the Emperor Romanus, who used to call Michael in to tickle the soles of his feet. Romanus' wife, the Empress Zoe, fell in love with Michael, poisoned Romanus, married tickling Michael and made him Emperor, while Michael's brother, John the Eunuch, ran the country as premier. Michael got sick, locked himself in a room and died refusing to see the lovelorn Zoe. John the Eunuch went on running the country...
...Pulitzer-prize-winning historian was one of nine men with University affiliations elected to the ADA State Executive Board at the dinner held in the Copley Plaza Hotel in Boston. Lawrence O'Dea, Jr. '48 LL.B., State Representative (D), was chosen first vice-chairman, Schlesinger vice-chairman, and Albert Sprague Coolidge '15, Lecturer on Chemistry, treasurer...
...story of seven years' suffering under two dictatorships. The Nazis had thrown him into Sachsenhausen in 1943 for listening to foreign broadcasts. Released in 1945, he headed for home in Schleswig-Holstein. Somewhere along the road, the Russians seized him again, sent him back to Sachsenhausen. In nine years of marriage, he had lived with his wife for only eight months. "God only knows if I'll find her," he said, "or what I'll find...