Word: nine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With his train of Weasels and Sno-Cats (special snow vehicles with spiked tracks), Fuchs had heavy going. The weather was warm for Antarctica, and the snow-bridges over the crevasses were weaker than when he pioneered the route to South Ice. Nine times his vehicles broke through the roofs of vast caves in the ice and had to be hauled out. Once a Sno-Cat was brought to the surface by fixing in the ice beneath it long sections of aluminum bridging to form an incline up which it could be drawn. Other troubles were heavy snowfalls and many...
...punishment for various sins which needn't be gone into here, Prometheus was chained to a rock in the Caucasus. He was assigned a vulture to peck at his liver on a nine-to-five basis, and those were the days before coffee breaks...
...varsity won all the other matches, although Peter Lund at number five, and Wally Stimpson at number nine were each pressed to five games...
...same time, the freshmen downed the Williams freshmen, 7 to 2, with both losses five-game defeats. Tony Lake at number one, won 3 to 1, while Pete Smith at number three, Ranny Hobbes at number four, and Tosi Hirai at number nine all scored 3 to 0 wins...
...undefeated Yardling squashmen will also play Williams, but with a force far below full strength. Four of the regular starting nine will not be in today's match...