Word: nine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cross country team remained undefeated until its last meet of the season, the Heptagonals, when it finished third, behind Cornell and Navy. The harriers won six meets against nine different opponents, including the Harvard-Yale-Princeton triangular race; this last triumph made them "Big Three" champions...
...Nine months ago, in his eagerness to achieve "reunification" with Giuseppe Saragat's Social Democratic Party, devious Pietro Nenni formally broke off the decade-old "unity of action" pact between his Socialists and Italy's Communist Party. While the skeptical claimed he would never make a final break with the Communists, and the hopeful predicted he would, Nenni skillfully teased the Social Democrats and did neither. Last week Nenni settled all doubts. "Any social progress must necessarily enjoy the support of the Communists," proclaimed...
...went for a rest to a sanitarium in Rye, N.Y. and, after staying overnight, left without notice. A widely publicized nine-state alarm went out for him as "dangerous and insane." Klemperer spent his life savings to hire a 70-piece orchestra and Carnegie Hall to prove that he was not. Though the concert went well, for years he was unable to get a regular conducting job. In 1947 he was invited to lead the Budapest State Opera and Philharmonic. Some musicians thought he was in a class with Toscanini, Bruno Walter and Furtwangler, but his illness had left...
ACROSS the North American continent from the edge of the polar icecap to the Mexican border lies a vast and wondrously intricate system of aerial defenses. Built over a period of nine years at a cost of more than $18 billion, based upon radar networks within networks electronically tied to the most modern systems of detection and interception (see color pages), it was never considered foolproof against penetration. A defense in depth, it was designed to-and will-limit to a minimum the breakthroughs of Soviet long-range bombers coming to pour nuclear destruction...
Even in minute quantities, triiodothyronine made a marked difference in 14 patients (one showed no response, and nine others showed slight changes, usually a decrease in resentment). To the psychiatrists trying to make closer contact with patients for more effective treatment, the important thing was that the 14 became markedly more responsive. In many cases the numb automatism disappeared. Emotions that had been buried in the unconscious came out in the open, could be dealt with in psychotherapy...