Word: nine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...varsity baseball team ran into a Berkshire thunderstorm, and Mouse Kasarjian ran into a warm-up throw from the catcher--both in the fourth inning--but the Williams nine failed to provide much of a problem as the Crimson captured the home-and-home series with a 6-1 victory Saturday...
...never since lost an election. He served four terms as prosecutor until, in one of the darkest of all Republican years, the chance came for advancement. In 1934, with the New Deal tide at its crest, the Congressman from Halleck's Second District died just nine days after the elections. Charlie Halleck went after the job, campaigned furiously, squeaked through by 5,000 votes. On the day he first walked into the chamber of the U.S. House of Representatives, the G.O.P. side of the aisle rose, cheering: Halleck was the only Republican member of Indiana's historically Republican...
King of Pontus, by Alfred Duggan. A rousing account of nine-lived old Warrior-King Mithridates...
Rude cheers resounded in bars and beer joints across the country as the mighty New York Yankees, winners of nine American League pennants in the past ten years, last week thudded into last place for the first time since 1940. The Yanks' team batting average was a puny .243 v. .266 at the same time last year, when they led the league by 6½ games. The Bronx Bombers had been shut out five times in the first six weeks of 1959. The pitching was poor too. Last week Yankee Aces Whitey Ford and Bob Turley were both knocked...
...fundamental as these two problems may be, they are not novel. What is unusual is Douglass Cater's suggestion in his book, The Fourth Branch of Government, that something may be wrong with the machinery itself. His examination of Washington reporting as he has seen it in nine years as Washington editor of the Reporter suggests that the changes in Washington and in reporting in the last thirty years found the reporter unprepared and left him slightly dazed and greatly altered...