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Word: nine (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...talk to Dana nine or 10 times a day on the phone," Ian says. "I'll call him at crazy hours, or he'll call me. If I'm watching something on TV, I'll call him, and he will be watching it too, and we will be thinking the same thing about what we just...

Author: By Casey J. Lartigue jr., | Title: Double Trouble on the Court | 5/23/1988 | See Source »

Their real interests as youngsters were soccer and tennis, but they both started playing squash as a hobby when they were about nine or 10 years old. "We played squash in between the soccer and tennis seasons," Jim says...

Author: By Michael J. Lartigue, | Title: Life as the Corsican Brothers | 5/23/1988 | See Source »

...take his 18 saves. He'll take the key saves at the end of the game. He'll even take the nine goals he gave...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: This Navy Goalie Takes it and Takes it | 5/20/1988 | See Source »

...write verses that people like, but who can't parse the sentences in his poems," he once said. Well, he isn't worried: any high school kid can parse. He always knew exactly what he was doing. In 1920, when he was still talking to the press, Berlin offered nine rules for composing a song. Write it for the average voice, for either sex to sing. The title should be strong, the lyrics euphonious. It should have "heart interest" and be "original in idea, words and music." Keep it simple. And absolutely no amateurs need apply: "The songwriter must look...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: So, Here's to You, Irving Berlin! | 5/16/1988 | See Source »

Call it one small step for man, one giant leap for Japanese television. Nine weeks after the first of two teams of climbers from Japan, China and Nepal set out from opposite sides of Mount Everest, six determined mountaineers rendezvoused on the world's tallest peak. What made the occasion particularly memorable was that television viewers were able to share in the celebration, courtesy of three intrepid Japanese cameramen who also made the 29,028-ft. climb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Accomplishments: Live, from Mount Everest | 5/16/1988 | See Source »

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