Word: ninth
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With the sanitation workers refusing to pick up garbage, firemen manning the police picket lines in sympathy, and federal mediators stymied, many local citizens had had enough. Eighteen of the oldest and grandest krewes canceled their parades, the first time since the Korean War and only the ninth time in Mardi Gras's 122-year history. "We are not going to let Mardi Gras be held hostage by the Teamsters," read a statement issued by the krewes. "It means a half million dollars and a whole year's work down the drain, plus all the fun we miss...
Apparently not when he sticks to Government regulations. About 30 ninth-graders were watching an antismoking film at Scarborough High School in Houston when HEW Secretary Joseph Califano came whizzing through on a tour of the city's schools. He asked how many of the students smoked. "Be honest," he added. The only one who admitted to smoking was Shawn Galloway, 16, who has been puffing up to three packs a day since the age of ten. Califano told Shawn that if she gave up smoking, she and a friend could have a free trip to Washington...
...Menichella, a sophomore butterflyer, placed ninth in the 100-yd. fly and seventh in the 200, despite not being among the top sixteen in either event going into the meet...
Princeton aided its cause by placing men fifth, ninth, tenth and 14th...
Harvard's Bobby Hackett had taken second in the 200, and Julian Mack had won the consolation heat to grab ninth, but that is only two swimmers and you need four for a relay...