Word: nine
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...funeral, televised live in 31 countries, marked the beginning of nine days of official mourning. On the tenth day, October 14, the cardinals will sequester themselves in the Sistine Chapel to begin the process of selecting John Paul's successor...
Rosovsky said yesterday he intended the nine Faculty members on the committee to represent a range of fields...
Since the 1975 Communist takeover transformed Cambodia into Democratic Kampuchea, the prophecy of the new national anthem has been amply borne out. A series of political purges and a disastrous mass resettlement policy, combined with a nine-month-old border war with Viet Nam, have splattered, indeed drenched the country with blood...
...letter to U.S. Chief Trade Negotiator Robert Strauss carried the strident ring of an ultimatum. Signed by Wilhelm Haferkamp, the German vice president of the European Community, and approved in advance by the Foreign Ministers of the nine member nations, it brusquely warned Washington that the Nine would retaliate if the U.S. began collecting extra import duties on a wide variety of their products. It also intimated that the Community would walk out of the three-year-old Tokyo Round trade talks, thus scuttling any possibility for their successful conclusion. What could follow, Haferkamp wrote, would be "a trade...
Sundays are especially trying. That is the day when, before the strike, masochistic New Yorkers took perverse delight in setting aside eight or nine hours for plowing through the 4-lb., 400-page Sunday Times to reassure themselves that nothing had really happened after all. "My Sundays are ruined!" cries Paula Gamache, a senior treasury analyst for Revlon, Inc. "There's no substitute for the crossword puzzle. I do it every week, I'm that compulsive." To fill the empty hours, Pronto, a trendy East Side Italian restaurant, is offering a Sunday brunch for the first time, and similar affairs...