Word: nine
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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UMass owned the second, fifth, sixth, eighth and tenth slots--with one Brandeis runner wedged in at number nine--but it wasn't enough for the victory...
...crash occurred over a residential area of San Diego, and at least nine homes were damaged or destroyed in the airliner's fall...
...Shah, facing the gravest threat to his throne in a quarter of a century, moved swiftly to quell the opposition that has been building against his regime over the past nine months. His policy was twofold: 1) to punish corrupt officials and subversives and 2) to demonstrate convincingly that Tehran's springtime of political liberalization, begun only a month ago, would continue...
When Anthropologist Peter Schmidt first visited the Haya people of Tanzania on the western shore of Lake Victoria, nine years ago, his goal was to study their complex heritage, which is passed orally from one generation to the next. On that and subsequent trips, he not only accomplished what he had set out to do but made a serendipitous discovery that alters the history of technology...
...eight-year-old boy tried to hang himself, and failed only because he could not tie a good enough knot. A nine-year-old girl attempted suicide twice-her mother saved her once by yanking away a bottle of rubbing alcohol she was trying to drink, the next time by grabbing her after she had swung one leg over an eighth-floor balcony. Other young children have tried to die by setting fires in their homes, jumping off rooftops, taking fistfuls of pills and slashing their wrists...