Word: nine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...length and breadth of his see for some remarkable achievements. During the last two decades, the Catholic population of the New York archdiocese (including Manhattan, The Bronx, Staten Island, and seven suburban counties) grew 50% to 1,558,328; the number of auxiliary bishops had risen from one to nine; the number of elementary and high schools had increased from 307 to 412; tireless Fund Raiser Spellman has chalked up $41,322,074 through his annual fund appeal for Catholic Charities. Born in Whitman, Mass., moonfaced, articulate Frank Spellman ran errands for his father's grocery, played sandlot baseball...
...wave length And I'm readin' you just fine Don't cut out of here 'Till we get on Cloud Nine . . . B-a-aby, you're the ginchiest...
Into the hall one typical Thursday walked nine hopefuls with eight minutes apiece to do their stuff. Three lights concealed onstage gave them their signals: green (speak louder), yellow (one more minute), red (stop). By way of a warmup, Chicago's Mrs. Charles S. Clark, who started the audition system 41 years ago. promised a program of "artists in embryo," recited a little poem entitled, Because I Got Up So Early Today...
...Navy hospital not long ago a 31-year-old chief petty officer suddenly broke off a casual conversation with a nine-year-old girl, grabbed the child by the throat, choked her and held her under water in a nearby tub until she was dead. Charged with murder, he at first denied the crime with such apparent sincerity that he fooled a lie detector. Later, remorseful, he confessed, but insisted that he could not remember the beginning of the attack, had just "suddenly discovered himself" strangling the girl...
...confident CRIMSON softball nine bided its time until the ninth inning Friday, then exploded for 23 quick runs to thrash its WHRB challengers...