Word: nine
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...third quarter proved to be the Achilles heel for Boston. Leading 49-42 at halftime, the Celtics managed only nine points in the third stanza. And when a team holds the likes of John Havlicek, Dave Cowens, and JoJo White without a point for 12 minutes and scores 27 points on its own, it's time to shake your head...
Lasorda was in a unique position to know just how good was the team he now led. Nine players on the Dodger roster played minor league ball under his tutelage. O'Malley, who tolerates clubhouse conflict only slightly less than free agents, had long assured an orderly transition. "We had Tommy in mind as a manager about ten years ago," O'Malley explained. "We deliberately took our best young prospects and put them on minor league teams that Tommy was managing. It's paid off. He knows the players...
...team received a small trophy for their regional championship and each member was awarded a plaque. "They are all on cloud nine after this one, and so am I," Hunt said...
...Cambridge City Council undertook the task of reviewing the controversial research planned by local universities and eventually emerged with a conditional approval of the research. The problem confronting the Council in its review--which attracted national media coverage--lay in the composition of the deciding body, a nine-member citizen's review panel, none of whom were scientists. Cambridge Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci says the Council and the review committee heard presentations by Harvard scientists George Wald, Higgins Professor of Biology emeritus, Richard N. Goldstein, assistant professor of Microbiology, and Ruth Hubbard, professor of Biology. They warned Cambridge citizens...
...good because the offense just didn't have it. In games like these, where psychology plays such a key role, Harvard was outFreudianed early by a nine-minute Princeton march in the opening quarter that covered 80 yards and resulted in the first of two Howe field goals, a 36-yarder. Had Harvard, as it did a week ago, been able to establish the early control, the Tigers would probably have been reduced to three purrs and a box of Purina. Princeton took the initial advantage in the mind game, though, and then proved that nothing succeeds like success...