Word: nine
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...promised more than it will get: which creates, in each generation, a furious, bewildered rage"). Then came Giovanni's Room, a rather purple novel about homosexuality. And then, in 1957, when French friends kept asking him to "explain Little Rock," where the U.S. Army had been summoned to escort nine black children to school through screaming mobs of whites, Jimmy finally decided "that it would be simpler . . . to go to Little Rock than sit in Europe, on an American passport, trying to explain...
...just the election bloodbath that outraged Haitians and international observers. Hours after civilian election officials halted the polling in hopes of curbing the violence, Lieut. General Henri Namphy, head of the military-dominated junta, dissolved the independent nine-member electoral council. Haitians and diplomats alike denounced the move as a "coup d'etat against the constitution."Council members refused to step down, labeling Namphy's move an "act of high treason" and declaring void any elections that the government organizes in the future. At least one presidential candidate demanded that the junta step down...
...days leading up to the election, trucks transporting voting materials were attacked and vandalized. When election officials requested helicopters to deliver ballots to outlying posts, the government brusquely refused. Electoral council offices were ransacked and burned. All nine members of the electoral council received death threats. Yet the government declined to commit itself to providing election-day security until two days before the balloting. In some violence-racked neighborhoods, determined voters took matters into their own hands, establishing watch committees and killing at least three members of the goon squads...
...world's leading wine critics is preparing for a hard day's work. On the cluttered wet bar of his home office in rural Parkton, Md., nine stubby, stemless glasses, narrower at the top than at the bottom, are lined up. Behind them stand nine uncorked bottles of California red wine, their labels obscured by foil wraps. The critic rinses the glasses with wine from three of the bottles. Then he pours an inch or so of red liquid from the first bottle into the first glass and holds it up to the light. "Good color," he says, "but that...
...warm sunshine of May, when the flowering lilac trees perfume the air with romance. But this year thousands of couples are braving ice and snow to say their vows. In November three times as many marriages took place as in the same month last year; Vienna's nine city registrars' offices are booked solid for weddings until the end of the year...