Word: nine
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...Harrier AV-8A jump jets, the British-built aircraft capable of leaping straight up from a carrier deck and then accelerating to more than 500 m.p.h., have crashed since the Marines first bought them seven years ago. Death toll: nine pilots. Six of the planes have gone down this year, the latest on July 26 in Pamlico Sound off eastern North Carolina, killing its pilot. Just two weeks before that, another pilot was killed when his plane dove into the Atlantic off the North Carolina coast after having performed its feat of hummingbird derring-do from the carrier Saratoga...
...Much credit was also due to some skillful mediation by nine neutral and nonaligned nations (Austria, Cyprus, Finland, Liechtenstein, Malta, San Marino, Sweden, Switzerland and Yugoslavia). The " NNs," as they were dubbed adroitly provided many of the phrases and even the punctuation of the agreement their own desire (which coincided with Washington's) for a full-scale conference this fall...
That book surveyed 50 categories of denominations; another described 231 U.S. groups. The current Yearbook of American and Canadian Churches lists 328. The meticulous Professor Piepkorn wanted to go beyond this and catalogue for the first time the beliefs of each denomination in existence. Over nine years he classified a staggering total of 735 North American religious bodies...
Many homemade planes, however, never leave the ground. The EAA estimates that only one out of every ten who start a plane ever finishes it. Said Roger Rourke, a machinist who spent nine years building his brightly painted, red and yellow Starduster: "It took six years to build it, 15 seconds to crash it, and three more years to rebuild it." Rourke's perseverance paid off: last week he won the EAA'S grand champion Custom Built Award...
Kristofferson, who is 41 and nine years older than Rita, thinks of himself as world weary and is more entitled to that opinion than many. He has at various times been a short-story writer, Golden Gloves boxer, top-ranked college football player, bartender, janitor, helicopter pilot, Army captain and scholar. He was graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Pomona College and went on to Oxford as a Rhodes scholar where, as Kris Carson, he dabbled in pop music. After quitting both academe and the Army, he began drifting. At 29 he found himself in Nashville, and he began writing songs...