Word: nine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Here's a picture of the "Mink o' Nine Tails" duster, which shows it is also a bottle opener...
...Venezuelan navy, and eight other armed-forces officers met secretly at a Caracas military academy at 6 p.m., drew up an ultimatum giving the dictator until 10 p.m. to step down. To make the navy's position unmistakably clear, Rear Admiral Larrazabal (pronounced Lah-rah-sah-bahl) ordered nine destroyers to stand off Caracas' port of La Guaira with their guns trained on the shore. Army commanders, sickened by the sight of Venezuelan killing Venezuelan, joined the admiral's bid to end the fighting. Desperately, the dictator tried to bargain, but this time no one would listen...
...spontaneous, and reminiscent of Hungary's freedom fight. Howling with anger, the rioters fell on the hated Security cops, beat four of them to death. The rest retreated inside the building, broke out machine guns and rifles, and began firing for their lives. The battle raged bitterly for nine hours before the police fortress had been battered and set afire by army tank cannons; then the surviving cops surrendered and were trucked off to prison under army convoy...
...overnight it has changed Aeroflot from a lowly regarded, primarily domestic line into a major international threat. Aeroflot has about 50 TU-104s, flies them regularly to East Berlin, Prague, Sofia and distant cities within the U.S.S.R., cuts the eight-day Moscow-to-Peking rail trip to just nine hours...
...varsity basketball team, with a record of nine wins and four losses, faces Boston College Thursday night at the I.A.B. and meets a powerful Yale five here Saturday night. Paced by sharp-shooter Johnny Lee, the Elis are the defending champions of the Ivy League, but have lost to Dartmouth early this month. The Crimson was narrowly defeated by the Indians...