Word: nine
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Reagan still claims the loyalty of about one-third of his party in state after state. The large number of Republican candidates (nine) challenging him tends to split the anti-Reagan vote and thus strengthen the front runner. Reagan, however, carries some weighty burdens. He is 68 years old. If he wins, he will be the oldest President ever elected in U.S. history. Perhaps more important, the theatrics of American politics tends to make any three-time candidate seem shopworn...
...background of this election remains one of pessimism and economic worry. Sixty-nine percent say they feel the country is in "deep and serious trouble...
Born in Boone, Iowa, Mamie seemed destined for a quiet life. Though she attended finishing school, she persuaded her father, a prosperous meat packer, not to send her to college. While wintering in Texas in 1915, she met Ike, then an Army second lieutenant. Nine months later, the pair were married. For an Army wife, there was never a permanent home. "I have kept house in everything but an igloo," Mamie once said. "I long to unpack my furniture some place and stay forever." Their first child, Doud Dwight, died at three of scarlet fever. A second son, John...
...never go into the theater without finding a license plate with a number nine on it. And I pray. There are no atheists in foxholes, they used to say. Well, there are none in the wings, either...
...South House defense gave up its first points of the season late in the fourth quarter when Quincy reached paydirt following a fumble on SoHo's 13-yd. line. Joe Scipione, playing for absent signal caller Lon Hatamiya, scored on a nine yard run with 1:04 remaining...