Word: nine
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Would Have Thunk It?: Despite defeating the Lions by 34 points, Harvard punted more times than Columbia. Harvard's Alan Hall had a busy day, kicking the ball nine times for 320 yards. His longest punt went a respecatble 44 yards. Columbia's Matt Pollard punted eight times for 244 yards...
...long fuselage. Baugher was one of 1,139 model-airplane fanatics who trundled 7,000 tiny planes into the Norfolk area to compete in the National Model Airplane Championships. Known widely as the Nats, the show is the largest, most diverse gathering of its kind on the globe. For nine days these earthbound pilots flew, gabbed, crashed, repaired and lived body and soul in the environment of a hobby-sport that has leaped the Iron Curtain, taken root in China and become one of the fastest-growing leisure indulgences in the free world. The Academy of Model Aeronautics' membership...
There are cheerleaders and there are athletes. Nearly no one but Jackie was both. "From being a cheerleader at the youth center, I knew at the age of nine that I could jump. That's when I started running and jumping off my porch." A firemen's brigade of siblings used a potato-chip bag to "borrow" sand from the center and install a landing pit off the porch. Jackie's main co-conspirator was her older brother Al, whom she could beat at everything. "I didn't have a big brother," Al says. "I had Jackie." Through a fluttering...
...birth of a daughter twelve weeks prematurely jumbled his regimen. "My little girl weighed less than a bag of sugar. It was incredible how tiny she was. Yet she was perfectly formed." He stopped training long enough to help worry her through the crisis of her entry to life. Nine months later, everything but his reputation for invincibility is well...
Eight I.D.F. personnel have been arrested, as well as eight civilians. Files have reportedly been opened on 200 suspects. Ze'ev Schiff, a leading Israeli military commentator, said the "enormous stress" on the I.D.F. from so many wars, intensified by lengthier reserve duty during the nine-month-old Palestinian uprising, may have weakened the willingness of some Israelis to / serve. In the past, when the I.D.F. discovered cases of forged medical records, most of the culprits were trying to get into elite units by concealing disqualifying ailments...