Word: nine
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...LITTLE GIRL, maybe six or seven years old with straight brown hair and timid eyes, walks up to you as you get off the bus. "Buy a button? For the march?" she asks. You've travelled nine or ten hours in a miserable excuse for an economy bus to be able to march today. For a dollar, you can't refuse her. You buy the button, and allow the girl to pin it to your shirt. It reads. "Affirmative Action/Smash the Bakke Case." Welcome to the largest civil rights demonstration in 15 years...
...side and hitting nothing close to his best serve, forced the Lions' sophomore sensation. Eric Fromm, to a second-set tiebreaker before succumbing. Scott Walker also lost, blowing a lead when Aussie Greg Dingwall came alive while trailing 4-1 in the second set and ran off nine straight games to win the match in three sets...
After shooting an impeccable 36 for his front nine, the wheels came off George Arnold's game as they say in golf lingo Arnold piled up 48 strokes on his second nine...
Greis, a former Massachusetts girls' high school champion, faltered on the front nine in rainy, misty conditions, but she charged back over the closing nine with...
...Harvard attackman scored a goal until nine minutes into the second half, when Steve Martin slipped behind the cage, took a return pass from Hank Leopold and rammed home a beauty while reeling on the slippery turf, to make it 10-3. If it had not been for the inspired play of midfielder Jamie Egasti (11 of 16 second-half faceoffs), and the late-game sharp-shooting of Mike Faught (four goals, one assist), the legendary Ithacans might have humbled the Crimson even more...