Word: nines
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...front yard of one of many rows of neat new grey tile-roofed houses near the epicenter, I saw a young man doing his own laundry. He was Shinji Hamaguchi, 23, a former medical student and now a drugstore clerk. The A-bomb killed his parents and nine other relatives. "I still long to be a doctor," he said, "but it is financially impossible. If my family were living it would be different...
Next day the college recounted the fire's toll: first, two who had been killed in jumps, then another who died of a head injury in the hospital. Six more were missing and for them hope soon died. When the count was completed, nine were listed as dead, 25 injured. For Kenyon College it was the most tragic week in its 125-year history...
...design, named for the leaf of the scuppernong-wine grape. "Rench" was the word for rinse, and "wropping" was the method of braiding pickaninny pigtails. In Mississippi at least, a perjured slave was subject to "have both your ears nailed to the pillory, and cut off, and receive thirty-nine lashes on your bare back, well laid on, at the common whipping post." Then as now, a cockleburr was regarded as a bad thing to get under a saddle...
...page report to Governor Paul A. Dever, the commission said that there was no "just cause" for Dr. Van Waters' removal, and that nine of the 27 charges against her were "trivial" and "captious...
Wrestling is a severe sport. To be a good enough wrestler to win against current competition, a man must be in better physical condition than the good athlete in any other sport. No other athlete makes such sacrifices for his weight; no other experiences the grueling nine-minute drain on his energy. The season lasts from November to April and the wrestler cannot let a day go by without practicing. He works longer and harder than any other athlete...