Word: nine
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...1920s. Correspondent Edward Boyer, who sat in on the interview with Haley, felt a shock of recognition when he saw Roots on TV. Boyer's maternal grandparents were born slaves, and his grandfather had watched General Sherman's troops march through Georgia -marveling, as any nine-year-old boy would, at "all the shiny buttons" on the blue Union uniforms...
...They arrived with snowblowers and trucks. The Air Force sent a C-130 cargo plane from Cleveland with needed repair parts for snow-removal equipment, and another plane hauled in cots and blankets from Washington, D.C. More than 500 National Guardsmen pitched into the snowbanks. Later, Carter declared nine counties a major disaster area, thereby allowing local governments as well as individuals, businesses and farmers to get additional federal funds to cover losses...
John Kennedy has been dead for more than 13 years and Martin Luther King Jr. for nearly nine; yet many Americans still wonder if the full truth has been told about their assassinations. Last week the House of Representatives voted 237 to 164 to continue still another investigation of the deaths-but for only two months at this point. The main reason for the restriction is an abrasive and aggressive man named Richard A. Sprague...
...former slave named Andrew Boone described how runaways were beaten: first with a "cobbin" paddle with 40 holes in it to raise blisters, then with a cat-o'-nine-tails. "When de whippin' wit de paddle was over, dey took de cat-o'-nine-tails and busted the blisters. By dis time de blood sometimes would be runnin' down deir heels. Den de next thing was a wash in salt water strong enough to hold up an egg." Then an ex-slave named Lindsey Faucette reported: "Marse never allowed us to be whipped . . . We worked...
...storm's progress as it hacked its swath of destruction across a defenseless New York-New England coastline. It is the story of how swift death burst onto a country that didn't yet know enough about hurricanes even to bother naming them, and how people worn out by nine years of depression struggled, quite literally, to keep their heads above water...