Word: nine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...generations, to the often unconcealed horror of doting aunts and grandmothers, well-heeled young Britons have been bundled off to boarding schools at the tender age of eight or nine to learn to be young gentlemen in a manly atmosphere free of the influence of mothers and nannies. Last week, in similar fashion, Queen Elizabeth and her husband Prince Philip took their eight-year-old son Charles by the hand and delivered him over to Headmaster Peter Beck at Philip's own alma mater, Cheam, one of England's oldest and most tradition-encrusted preparatory schools...
...Nine years in the developing, Mixture Eight was the discovery of Scrimshaw and two other nutrition scientists, Dr. Robert L. Squibb of Rutgers University and Dr. Moises Behar, a Guatemalan pediatrician. It contains 50% corn meal, 35% high-protein sesame meal, 9% cottonseed meal, 3% Kikuyu grass (for vitamin A) and 3% nonfermenting yeast. The mixture cooks into a tasty porridge or a cake that tastes like the familiar tortilla. Last year Scrimshaw tried it on a test group of Guatemalan children. Said Scrimshaw: "The children had swollen bellies, black skin, open sores, were apathetic, suffered from lack of appetite...
...After running in the money nine times at Belmont's beautiful horse park but never winning a race, Mrs. Jan Burke's brown horse Dedicate went to the post for one more effort. Lugging rough-riding Willie Hartack for the first time, Dedicate lay back and saved ground all the way to the stretch in the $106,100 Woodward Stakes, then came on along the rail to drive home briskly and beat both Gallant Man and Bold Ruler-a pair of thoroughbreds that were theoretically fighting it out for the title, Horse of the Year. On the same...
...Army and a Chief of Staff had ever looked directly at troops in action over a field commander's shoulder 900 miles away. They shared the view with millions who, between the humdrum of quiz shows and soap operas, watched the paratroopers effect the historic entry of nine Negro students into the Little Rock school. Viewers also saw the troops double-timing to round up sullen riffraff, heard white students uttering words of hatred-and tolerance. TV news directors broke into network programs at will that day, eleven times on CBS, eight on NBC, for spots averaging four minutes...
...Thirty-nine years before the gleam of lanterns from the steeple of Boston's Old North Church warned Paul Revere of approaching redcoats, a short, stocky Anglican divine, clad in near-rags and wasted by dysentery, tottered ashore at Boston Harbor. After convincing one rector that he was indeed a clergyman ("my ship-clothes not being the best credentials"), Charles Wesley, prolific composer (6,500 hymns) and restless younger brother of Methodism's Founder John Wesley, preached a sermon in Christ Church, better known as the Old North Church...