Word: nine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...generally voted with the U.S.. to the Asian-African members, which, despite the absence of Red China and Japan, now number 25. No longer can the Western allies, balked in the Security Council, count upon prevailing in the General Assembly. By adding their votes to those of the nine Communist members, the new nations of Asia and Africa can henceforth prevent any resolution they dislike from obtaining the necessary two-thirds majority...
Ward went 30 yards returning a Botsford punt to the Crimson 38 as the final period opened. Ward and Lorch advanced the ball to the nine and then Dick Winterbauer threw a wobbly pass to Paul Lopata, who caught it with Joslin on his back in the end zone. Vern Loucks converted to make...
...blocks. Two tackles clung to him but he would not stop. Finally, crushed under a mountain of Yale muscle, he lateraled a pass between the legs of a tackler, and a teammate gathered the ball into his arms for the last twenty yards and the first of Harvard's nine touchdowns...
Tutored by bulky (260 Ibs.) Tommy Prothro, once chief recruiter for U.C.L.A.'s Coach Red Sanders. Oregon State boasted nine California-bred bruisers on its first team. It was no surprise that they played Sanders' type of football: a power-packed single-wing offense that kept right on rolling after Stanford's sharpshooting passer, John Brodie, put the Indians out in front 19-7. Late in the third quarter, Oregon State completed a lovely 59-yd. pitch-and-run pass play of their own leading to a touchdown and, midway in the last quarter, went...
From other parts of the U.S. came other wails. Since last August, race after race has been a "smash," with nearly all birds lost. One New York City club lost all except nine of 230 birds. Another sent out some 1,000 birds and got less than 100 back. Clubs in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, California and Colorado were reported as having the same experience. A New Jersey club retrieved only two birds out of a flight of 100. There are some trouble-free spots (e.g., Massachusetts), but Editor John A. Roberts of the Racing Pigeon Bulletin says that pigeons...