Word: nine
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that quarter-century span, which has seen the Crimson capture six titles (B.C. and B.U. have nine apiece, while Northeastern has had a good time), the tournament has never been referred to as the Carrotpot, nor the Spinachpot, nor even the Asparaguspot...
...outsiders she sometimes seems, as a Washington Post editorial put it rather heavily, "forlorn-a baffled and beleaguered public figure." No more Amy press conferences, Jimmy ruled. Says Mary Hoyt: "For a while, she needs to get her feet on the ground and be treated like any other nine-year-old." As long as she does not follow Quentin Roosevelt's example, her privacy should be relatively safe. Arriving late one day for class, the story goes, Quentin disrupted his fellow students' work by singing and wildly waving his arms. For his misbehavior, school officials sent him home...
...Indian, Pakistani, African and West Indian immigrants, who could claim British citizenship on the basis of their Commonwealth status. Within 15 or 20 years, he declared, there would be a horde of 3.5 million coloreds in Britain, and one day they would precipitate a bloody race war. (In the nine years since that speech, the country's non-white population has more than doubled, to nearly 2 million; this has caused enormous social problems, but relatively little violence...
...collections might seem slight to the point of frippery. Ends and Odds contains eight brief pieces for the stage, radio or television. Fizzles offers an even more self-derisive title, generous margins, plenty of white space and eight snippets of prose, the longest of which does not quite fill nine pages. Yet in Beckett's case, the oddity is not that $13.90 (plus tax) purchases so few words, but that those words were written...
Archie C. Epps III, dean of students, was recently appointed to the state supreme court's new Committee on Judicial Responsibility, a nine-member body established to investigate allegations of misconduct or maladministration made against Massachusetts judges...