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Word: ninth (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that CTW has brought everything to the series but imagination and talent. The act ing is spotty, the direction glacially slow. The characters have as much life as the figures in the dioramas at a museum of natural history, and The Best of Families is as interminable as a ninth-grade history class on the last Friday before vacation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Romans and Countrymen | 11/14/1977 | See Source »

Slate member Mary Ellen Preusser moved from an eleventh place finish in 1975 to ninth, thus far this fall, with 1371 number one votes...

Author: By Michael Kendall, | Title: Liberal Vote Falters | 11/10/1977 | See Source »

Most of the Cambridge Convention candidates say they hope Vellucci wins tomorrow for personal and practical reasons, but as one said, "Everyone's probably voting for him as ninth choice." He has a strong challenge in his own neighborhood from Lawrence Frisoli, a conservative with a strong family political organization backing...

Author: By Michael Kendall, | Title: An Old-Fashioned Operator | 11/7/1977 | See Source »

Harvard's relationship with Cambridge is difficult to define. From the ninth floor view of the Harvard Planning Office, in Holyoke Center, Cambridge would not in fact exist if it were not for Harvard's existence. City Councilor Saundra Graham, however, is continually annoyed by the ways Harvard has moved into the community, taking away its tax base and increasing the rent. "I have always been against Harvard," Graham said at a speech last week, adding, "The University has allowed its students into Cambridge and they've pushed out our working class...

Author: By Laurie Hays, | Title: Two Sides of the City | 11/7/1977 | See Source »

...tree-lined 1800 block of West Ninth Street in Bensonhurst is a close-knit neighborhood of working-class Italian families. At least 50 people were outside their neatly kept houses when four shots rang out. Plumber Angelo Treglia, 42, fell dead. After police officers arrived, none of the residents would admit to having seen a thing. "What are they waiting for, another murder?" asked Treglia's tearful widow Tilda, as she begged for someone to identify the killer. Finally, after four days of pleading, Detective Edward Zigo convinced five witnesses that allowing the murder to go unsolved might be seen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Going... Going... Gone? | 11/7/1977 | See Source »

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