Word: nineteen
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With the exception of Brayton, it was a bad weekend for the Crimson pitching staff. EIBL opponents had scored only ten runs off Harvard in seven games, but Army and Cornell combined for nineteen tallies in two games, 16 of which were earned. Fortunately, coach Loyal Park's juggling act with the Crimson line-up produced some impressive results...
When does the bubble burst? Will the inflation of the nineteen sixties lead to deflation in the nineteen seventies? Are the new athlete-capitalists on a collision course with their employers? Or is everybody on a collision course with antitrust laws and a decade of legal tangles...
...statement noted that "as athletes, we are not insensitive to these issues and feel that our participation in athletics does not excuse us from our obligation to society. Some individual have decided to refrain from competition today, while others choose to symbolize their discontent by means other than abstention." Nineteen runners decided to compete at West Point under any circumstances...
...election of delegates to the constitutional convention brought together 100 of the best people of grass-roots Montana. There were ranchers, farmers, businessmen, three professors, five ministers, 24 attorneys, a beekeeper, a retired FBI agent. Nineteen were women, most of them housewives and educators. The oldest delegate was Lucille Speer, 73, a retired librarian; the youngest was a graduate student, Mae Nan Robinson, 24. What they all had in common was virtually complete ignorance of the art of constitution writing and a somewhat unfounded self-assurance...
Orwell himself was just such an elusive creature. He was a great political journalist, the disquieting conscience of socialism during the '30s and '40s, and finally, a marvelous sort of intellectual Aesop (Animal Farm, Nineteen Eighty-Four). A description he wrote of Dickens fits Orwell just as well: "A free intelligence, a type hated with equal hatred by all the smelly little orthodoxies which are now contending for our souls...