Word: nine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...admitted disconsolately that the Arabs were "the most inefficient and undisciplined people in the world." They could not at present, he thought, defeat the Jews in pitched battles, but he claimed that they would win in the end. Asked how long it would take, Azzam smiled wanly: "Six months, nine months, perhaps a year...
...symbolizes Belgium's healthy appetite for good life, good sense and hard work. Last week he had a chance to show his mettle in a political controversy-the matter of raising the subsidies to state schools. That was a touchy business in a coalition government of eight Socialists, nine Christian Socialists (Catholic party) and two nonparty technicians. The Catholic party, which has strong roots among a people whose lusty contentment is matched by deep religious feeling, protested that the added subsidy was discrimination against parochial schools...
...league scouts to his doorstep. It was his fourth victory in four starts, and boosted his current season's record total to a sizzling 86 strike-outs in 33⅓ innings (an average of 2.6 strike-outs an inning). A week earlier he struck out 28 men in nine innings (the catcher couldn't handle Radcliffe's fast drop on one third strike), allowing only one hit in a 10-0 shutout...
Lloyd Harper's high-flying Junor Varsity baseball club will be shooting for its ninth straight victory this afternoon when it opens fire on the Springfield nine. The contest is scheduled for the Soldiers Field diamond at 4 o'clock...
Wentworth Institute let the Freshman nine have two runs in the first inning yesterday merely to make the game interesting--for the visitors added seven tallies to the three they had registered in the first and won going away, 10 to 2. It was the Yardlings' fifth straight setback...