Word: nine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...John Diefenbaker and a party of other notables from Ottawa and Washington,* Ike and Mamie joined their hosts aboard the blue-hulled yacht Britannia for a 31-mile, five-hour cruise through the lower channels and first three locks of the seaway-which have actually been in use for nine weeks (TIME...
...devastating accuracy it found a small opening between Patterson's raised gloves, caught him squarely in the face (see cut). Patterson literally rose six inches into the air before thudding to the canvas on the seat of his white satin pants. He wobbled up at the count of nine, and stared bewildered in the direction of the Yankee bleachers. Johansson did not wait for him to turn around. He clipped him with a left hook, then smashed a right over the ear. Patterson fell. Five times more Patterson lurched gamely to his feet, and five times more Johansson smashed...
...publication. It can also claim a first-class journalistic coup. Few more improbable newspaper locales could be conceived than New Guinea, 312,329 square miles of steaming, often impenetrable jungle and snowcapped mountains populated by 2,400,000 natives-90% illiterate-and some 34,000 emigre whites. Yet for nine years the Post has successfully managed to give a voice to an area where news once traveled largely by bush telegraph...
...Nine Coaches Waiting, Stewart...
...Francis, near the St. Lawrence River. The raiders had bad luck; the French discovered their cache of food and boats for the return voyage, and cut off all possibility of retreat. "This unlucky circumstance," Rogers recorded laconically, "put us in some consternation." But the Rangers pushed on, slogged for nine straight days through a vast spruce bog. Sacking the Indian town was comparatively easy, but the journey back to Crown Point was harrowing. The corn supply quickly ran out, and the Rangers, split into small hunting parties, were easy prey to the aroused Indians. At one point, faint with hunger...