Word: nine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...never had Jim Holloway played so far above his own head. For 3^ years his wife Jean, daughter of Major General Johnson Hagood, U.S.A., was incurably ill with cancer. Holloway would leave his quarters in Washington at 6:20 a.m., play a lonely nine holes of golf with his single adjustable-head golf club at the Army and Navy Country Club, put in a full day's work with not a mention of his wife's illness, then spend the evening at the hospital with her before taking a long walk home, as he put it, "to become...
...last week, nine-year-old Prince Charles of England accidentally tripped over a classmate's toes in a soccer match at Cheam School outside of London. Cried the injured party: "Hey, Fatty, get off my foot!" A husky lad, His Royal Highness squared off and began throwing punches. It was all rather humiliating; but a few days later Charles got a name that sounded a good deal nicer than mean old Fatty...
Noel Coward's Tonight at 8:30 is constantly popping up on playbills. But when you buy your ticket you don't know what you're going to see, for Tonight is a nonet of one-acters from which any given production is supposed to choose three. Unfortunately, the nine are of uneven quality; and so, perforce, will be the 84 possible shows...
...loss of the Iraq supply. They are wary of repeating their mistake during the Suez crisis, when they amassed stores of oil so large that production had to be chopped back hard this year. Last week the Texas Railroad Commission boosted the number of producing days in August from nine to eleven, but made it clear that the hike was due to a slight rise in petroleum demand and a reduction of oil inventories rather than to the Iraq crisis...
...cyclist, auto racer, painter, planemaker, first man to fly a heavier-than-air machine over New York City (1908); of a heart ailment; in Paris. In 1908 Farman won the 50,000-franc Deutsch-Archdeacon Prize by flying (in a closed circle) the first kilometer-in-air over Europe, nine months later made the first city-to-city flight, a hop of 17 miles from Chålons-sur-Marne to Reims. One of the first designers to utilize such basic devices as the aileron and floats for hydroplanes, he set up his own factories before World...