a 1965 "whole 9 yards"

[Stephen Goranson]

Assembly [magazine]
Association of Graduates, United States Military Academy, v. 23 n. 3 col. 3, Fall  1965, p. 53 (55 of 100 in pdf)
In class notes '41 Col. Burton C. Andrus Jr of Annandale Va. addressed housing for June Week:
....This brings up the all-important arrangements for the billets....the Holiday Inn....We have 60 of the 120 rooms reserved so far--why not take over "the whole 9 yards" as the teenagers say?....

http://digital-library.usma.edu/libmedia/archives/assembly/vol24no3.pdf

Stephen Goranson
http://www.duke.edu/~goranson

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