Word: nine
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...meet Freeman Dyson as a nine-year-old child poring over--not Einstein's differential equations--but Edith Nesbit's utopia. This introduction is true to character. Dyson is not just a physicist; he's a romantic, a humanist and an optimist...
More than anything, the meet was a showcase for Harvard's aquatic power. The Crimson grabbed nine of 13 events and could have held Columbia's point total under 25. Considering that the devastated Lions finished sixth at last year's Easterns, the future hardly looks bright for the Crimson's East Coast rivals...
Amid all its other difficulties, the government was also distracted by an earthquake that destroyed at least nine villages in northeastern Iran and killed several hundred people. (A far more serious tremor in the same region last year had killed 25,000.) Khomeini declared the situation a "national calamity" and appealed for "Islamic help" in providing doctors, medicine and food. The U.S., which has repeatedly provided such aid in the past, was not called upon...
...months he had waited patiently in the wings, as nine other Republicans entered the race without dislodging him from his position at the head of the pack. Last week Ronald Reagan, the once fervent evangelist of the political right, finally made his move. He did so in one of the nation's few citadels of G.O.P. moderation: New York City. As a spotlight redolent of Hollywood memories illuminated his pinkish cheeks and slightly graying temples, the still handsome candidate declared, "I am here tonight to announce my intention to seek the Republican nomination for President of the United States...
...Indians, Minnesota authorities secured a temporary injunction restraining the Chippewas from regulating white activities. But the state went along with the tribe's opening move: shortening the deer-hunting season on the reservation to three days in early November. In most of the surrounding area, the season lasted nine days...