Word: nine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more than three years the Navy's biggest,*oldest carrier had fought through the Pacific war, taken two submarine torpedoes but never a hit from an enemy aircraft. On that February afternoon, as she was launching her own planes off Iwo Jima, nine Jap planes closed...
...awaited news finally arrived, it was a big letdown. Sergei Prokofieff's monumental opera, War and Peace (promised by Stalin to the Metropolitan Opera after a Soviet premiere) had a concert run-through last week at the Moscow Conservatory. An audience of professional musicians, squirming through the sceneryless nine scenes, vigorously applauded the classic melodies, found the unwieldy Tolstoyan libretto tough going and concluded that the opera was far from finished...
...razzle-dazzle performance, the Mississippi rookie outshone all the rest. He had started ten games, finished ten, won nine (four of them by shutouts), pitched 85 scoreless innings out of 95, inciting breast-beating Bostonians to claim that they had the greatest heaver since Bob Feller...
...idolized"; 3) most of the mothers were not so popular; 4) half of the somnambulists had been the youngest child in a very large family (the average sleepwalker had five and a half brothers & sisters); 5) many of the families had his tories of mental illness, including suicide; 6) nine sleepwalkers were single and of the 13 married ones, five had been divorced and quickly remarried; 7) even those who had stayed married were not much interested in women; some were openly hostile...
...Eric Ohlson's big brown Dante, both a sentimental and a practical (10-to-3) favorite, made the Derby his eighth victory in nine starts-by two lengths over Lord Rosebery's Midas...