Word: nine
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Under two dictators-Laureano Gómez and Gustavo Rojas Pinilla-Protestant missionaries in the Colombian backwoods were victims of a nine-year campaign of terror and violence aimed at chasing them out of the country. They were jailed, beaten, run out of town. Their schools and churches were padlocked, sometimes burned and dynamited, and it was decreed unlawful for any Protestant missionary to minister to any Colombian citizen. Last week, with Rojas five months gone, there were signs that the anti-Protestant pressure was easing...
...After nine years of encouraged hatred, the military junta that has replaced Rojas cannot suddenly reverse the anti-Protestant policy without stirring up stiff opposition that could cripple their aim to return Colombia to civilian control. But the junta has allowed the largest Protestant church in the country, the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel in Barrancabermeja, to open its doors again to its 1,500 worshipers. And the government has promised a new visa policy to selected Protestant missionaries, who have had difficulty entering Colombia for more than a year...
Farmers in 16 counties of North and South Carolina were anxiously watching their fields last week for a delicate, bright green plant that grows to be nine or ten inches high. It is a pretty plant, with gay red and orange flowers shaped something like violets. In South Africa, where it abounds, Boer farmers call it rooibloemetjie (little red flower) and vuurbossie (firebrand). In the U.S. it is witchweed (Striga asiatica), a parasitic plant that sucks the life sap of corn, sorghum, sugar cane and many other crops, leaving the plants as rustling ghosts while the little red flowers bloom...
Into the Sandbox. The Freinet method was an outstanding flop. Pupils had to memorize whole words without any training in the alphabet, figure arithmetic problems without first handling numbers from one to nine. Any confused youngster was free to head for the playground. Shrugged one demoralized teacher: "Instead of struggling with their work, they jump into the sandbox...
...Force Man Robbins got better and better. Confident, his blood pressure under control, he practiced his putting during the lunchtime intermission with the old Cash-in club that was "loaned" to him nine years ago by a public-links pro back home in Memphis. Dentist Taylor managed to keep in contention until the 24th hole, then he began to come apart. Racking up pars and birdies with ease, Lieut. Hillman Robbins won himself the U.S. Amateur championship, 5-and-4. Said he: "I don't reckon I'll ever give that putter back...