Word: nine
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dawn broke, a thick mist rolled across the pastureland around the Dutch hamlet of De Punt, enveloping the motionless yellow train. Inside, nine jittery Moluccan hijackers and 51 exhausted hostages were beginning their 20th day of cold fear together, a grisly endurance record of its kind. At a primary school in the nearby village of Bovensmilde, four other Moluccan terrorists kept four schoolteachers prisoner. Deployed around both the train and the school was an estimated 2,000-man army of crack Dutch commando marines, a special squad of sharpshooters, and armored military-police units...
...government decided to end the hostages' agony. In the most dramatic rescue operation since Entebbe, a Dutch military team mounted a commando-style dawn assault on both train and school. Six of the 13 Moluccan terrorists and two of the hostages were killed. One terrorist, two marines and nine of the prisoners were wounded. It was a heavy toll, but at least the long ordeal had ended...
...grim replay of that incident, nine young Moluccans hijacked a Utrecht-Groningen express train near De Punt on May 23, while five others seized the primary school at Bovensmilde, where there were 105 children and five teachers. There was no doubt that the Moluccans intended to terrify the country. The children were forced to the windows to chant to the waiting troops and parents, "Van Agt, we want to live!" On several occasions hostages were displayed outside the train with ropes around their necks. But after an influenza-type epidemic broke out at the school, the terrorists freed...
...student-faculty committee ever gets around to looking into the area, it will find a growing number of schools no longer share Harvard's doubts about women's studies' validity. Of course, there are other schools that do not have women's studies programs, including Yale (which does have nine course in the field), Stanford, and--surprisingly--Smith, Mt. Holyoke and Bryn Mawr, three of Radcliffe's six sisters...
That six-month period stretched into nine, and eventually the citizens' group reported that the controversial work could go on, provided the scientists followed National Institutes of Health safety guidelines and a few other restrictions. The city council approved the report over Vellucci's objections, and Harvard continued to build the special labs needed for the research...