Word: nine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nine small ships nosed slowly past the sun-baked jetties at the entrance to Port Said harbor and into the open Mediterranean-the first convoy to pass through the Suez Canal in five months. Harbor vessels tooted joyously, and on the quays crowds broke into cheers...
...authors entertain the notion that traditional subject matter has any validity, they give scarcely a hint of it. They begin by outlining the "scope" of the curriculum in terms of nine "major functions of living"-"Practicing American Citizenship, Using the Tools of Communication, Developing Economic Competence, Improving Family Living, Protecting Life and Health, Building Human Relationships, Enjoying Wholesome Leisure, Satisfying Spiritual and Aesthetic Needs, and Meeting Vocational Responsibilities...
...late Playwright Eugene O'Neill pushed aside the bulky, handwritten manuscripts of his projected nine-play study of the rise and fall of a New England family, and wrote the plays that made him once more the dominant figure of the American theater. In quick succession he ground out The Iceman Cometh, which is flourishing in its second year off-Broadway as a revival, the autobiographical Long Day's Journey Into Night, the season's outstanding drama, and A Moon for the Misbegotten, which will open on Broadway next month...
Ovid was banished from Rome for the last nine years of his life, possibly for some act so flagrant that he himself thought it too scandalous to confide to posterity. It can be said of Ovid, as Hilaire Belloc once hoped for himself: "His sins were scarlet, but his books were read." Rarely have they read more delightfully than in Humphries' jaunty recreation of the urbane amorist's pagan high spirits...
Siler won the shot put with a 47 foot 5.5 inch heave and placed second in the discus with a throw of 150 feet 5 inches, as Oxford took nine of the 13 events for a 73-53 point victory...