Word: nine-point
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...toward the end of a good ball game, Harvard had it in the bag with a safe nine-point lead, and fans were getting a bit bored. Suddenly, second string Engineer quarterback John DeNoia dropped back on his own 31-yard line and let go with an unsteady heave that swooned its way into the waiting hands of left halfback Pat Clark, who ran the remainder of the 69 yards for six points. The pass concluded an 87-yard drive covered by three quick plays. Andy Larko made the conversion, and Crimson fans snapped to attention as the scoreboard registered...
...peace mission to be sent to Latin America, also dispatched Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Abraham Ribicoff to Miami for a four-day, on-the-spot survey of 32,000 Cuban refugees. The day after Ribicoff returned to Washington with his recommendations, Kennedy announced a $4,000,000, nine-point program of refugee aid. Among the ideas: training in U.S. methods for displaced physicians, teachers and other professionals; a program of care for unaccompanied children; subsidies to provide for the education of all children; a resettlement program to move refugees out of the congested Miami area...
...varsity quintet relapsed into the bad habit of losing Saturday night, by frittering away a nine-point lead in the final three and a half minutes against Cornell at Ithaca. The 67-63 loss was the fourth against three victories for the Crimson in league competition. A three-point play by Big Red captain Lou Jordan with 26 seconds remaining vaulted the home team into the lead...
...committeemen and women present welcomed Alcorn's carefully drawn nine-point reorganizing program -two million more precinct workers, year-long fund-raising campaigns, more emphasis on college-age voters and teenagers, etc. But when it came to the philosophy that the remodeled machine should push, conservatives were less than enthusiastic. And they had the meeting's stronger voices...
...between Hatfield and Neuberger was polite and pleasant. While Maurine Neuberger and pert mother-to-be Antoinette Hatfield discussed draperies, Hatfield and Neuberger retired to the study of the Senator's rambling, green Portland home, spread papers on a coffee table, reached agreement on an all-for-Oregon, nine-point agenda, e.g., if increase in the state gasoline tax to assure federal highway funds, a development corporation for the Columbia River...