Word: nine
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...evidence of a single moment of holocaust lay mutely within a low-slung white hangar at Los Rodeos Airport on a 2,073-ft.-high plateau nine miles from Santa Cruz de Tenerife, the island's major city. Row after row of dark wooden coffins filled the entire floor of the 150-ft. by 150-ft. building. Inside the gleaming, metal-lined boxes lay the charred and mostly still unidentified remains of 576 victims of the worst accident in aviation history. The limbs were fixed in what pathologists term the "pugilistic position"?arms extended upward and bent inward...
...crew members of the KLM plane perished. There were 67 survivors from the Pan Am plane?most of them from California, where the flight had originated. One woman died aboard the military aircraft sent to fly the injured back to the U.S. At week's end nine remained in critical condition, suffering severe burns. The accident almost certainly will involve the highest insurance claims for any non-natural disaster. Estimates from London insurers placed the potential payout at $240 million. Survivors in California already have filed a class action suit against KLM, Pan Am and Boeing for nearly $2 billion...
...rare show of unity, however, nine opposition parties formed a coalition called the Pakistan National Alliance, which Bhutto contemptuously dismissed as "nine cats tied together by their tails." But the campaign-only the third since Pakistan became idependent in 1947-turned into an unexpectedly fierce contest. Just before the balloting on March 7, independent observers described the struggle between Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party and the National Alliance as too close to call -and they now believe that in a fair contest, the alliance might have...
Generations of astronomers and amateur stargazers have known Saturn as the only one of the solar system's nine planets that is encircled by rings. Now Saturn has lost that distinction. A team of Cornell University astronomers reported last week that they have discovered rings around remote Uranus, the seventh planet from...
Snow and Ice. What they observed was entirely unexpected. During nine minutes before Uranus completely blocked out the light from the star, the light disappeared-for seconds at a time -on five different occasions. After the star re-emerged from the other side of Uranus, its light was again obstructed five times at intervals that corresponded to the first set of blackouts. From these observations the astronomers concluded that the star had passed behind at least five rings encircling Uranus. The rings -which are vertical to earth's equatorial plane and cannot be seen by terrestrial telescopes...