Word: nine
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...current troubles began early this year when police killed nine people during a demonstration in the mullahs' holy city of Qum (pop. 300,000), a traditional center of Shi'ite learning located 75 miles south of Tehran. After observing the traditional 40-day Muslim mourning period for the victims, demonstrators took to the streets. Again, several people were killed. On May 10, during observances for the death of Fatima, daughter of the Prophet Mohammed, paratroopers entered the Qum headquarters of Shi'ite Leader Sharietmadari, which is considered a religious sanctuary. A theological student was shot and killed...
...Sizer likes to recall Andover's greatest benefactors: John Watzek, an immigrant's son who spent only a year at the school in 1910 but gave it $5.8 million between 1958 and 1973; Walter Leeds, who came to Andover in 1905 on scholarship and was kicked out nine months later, yet remembered the school in his will last year to the tune of $5 million...
...shelled out $118 million in interest on money borrowed to make the quick payments. At the same time, the U.S. dawdles in collecting money owed to it. Customarily, the Government takes 23 days to send bills to buyers of goods from the nation's strategic stockpile, and nine days to cash the buyers' checks...
...trial, raised the question of whether the 20-to 24-week-old fetus might not have been legally alive after Edelin performed the hysterotomy, or "mini-caesarean section," that terminated the pregnancy. While the testimony failed to produce an answer, it did convince the jury of three women and nine men that Edelin should have done more to find out if the baby was viable and worked harder to help it live...
...Crimson displayed none of the fine hitting the squad had shown all season in that contest, managing only three hits over nine innings. Jim Peccerillo's bunt single in the second was the only Harvard base hit until Rick Pearce and Chuck Marshall strung together a pair of singles in the bottom of the eighth inning...