Word: nine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only respectable playing all afternoon came from Crimson pitcher Wally Cook. This unfortunate, although touched for nine hits in seven innings, permitted the opposition only one earned run. However, the support afforded him by his teammates made the job almost impossible...
...disappointed Spring Weekend crowd of Tigers and dates saw the undefeated Crimson sweep the first six singles and two of the next four to clinch both the nine-match Eastern Intercollegiate League and the fifteen-match Big Three contests before the doubles play had even begun. The varsity won three of five doubles to make the final Big Three score...
...secure union freedoms. Neither rueful John McClellan nor any other Southerner refused to support the changes. When the vote was taken, only G.O.P. conservatives and Ohio's Democratic Conservative Frank Lausche held out; the amendment passed 77-14. Two-and-a-half hours later, after nine days of debate, the revised Kennedy bill passed 90-1, with only Diehard Barry Goldwater voting against...
Business Governor. Chapel Hill beckoned early to Luther Hodges, born March 9, 1898, eighth among nine children of a poor tenant farmer who gave up and moved into the textile-mill town of Spray (1950 pop. 5,500). Though Luther quit seventh grade to work in the mill (50? a day), he later saved $62.50, at 17 went off to work his way through Chapel Hill (class of '19). After college, he resolved to go back home and make his mark in the mills, in 17 years worked his way up to production manager of Marshall Field...
...good-hitting Latin nine scored quickly on a first-inning triple and a subsequent single, but then fell behind as the Yardlings scored lone runs in the second and fourth frames. In the second, Jim Dwinell hit to left, moved around on an infield error, and scored the tying run on Boone's base...