Whole Nine Yards update(1964)?

[Douglas G. Wilson]

>Tucson(AZ) Daily Citizen, 25 April 1964, page 25, a story about NASA.
>
>"Give 'em the whole nine yards" means an item-by-item report on any project.
>
>Make of this what you will.  It may not be what it seems.

I reckon it probably is. Good show!

Recall this recollection from 1964, quite detailed and convincing but
of course not the same as real text ... not QUITE as early either.

http://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0101D&L=ADS-L&P=R9533&I=-3

Now let's figure out why it was exactly nine ....

-- Doug Wilson


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