Word: nine-day
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...visit to MIT was the last stop on his nine-day, six-city U.S. tour expected to draw protests of China's human rights abuses...
...less than a week, most of the student body will be let loose on the world in a desperate nine-day attempt to flee Harvard. Some people will be drunk beyond belief in some tropical paradise. Some will be jetting through Europe on a whirlwind trip. Some will be fighting for the remote at home. Some will be puttering around the dorms, finishing up thesis work or enjoying having the common room all to themselves. But regardless of where we go or what we do, we all share one intention: to seek some solace from the stress that invades...
...Bill Clinton took a nine-day trip to promote "the de-demonization" of this country...
There are those who have criticized Glenn's mission as a mere publicity stunt to revitalize NASA's flagging space program. After all, Glenn is merely a guinea pig on the nine-day journey. Dubbed "Payload Specialist 2," he is the lowest ranking member of the crew...
There was no chance that Glenn would need any of this equipment during a training session here on solid ground. But on Oct. 29, when he climbs into a mid-deck seat on the shuttle Discovery and prepares to rocket into space for a nine-day mission, he'll face a real, if remote, chance that the craft could spin out before it reaches space and wind up in the drink. If it does, the septuagenarian Senator will need all the survival hardware...