Word: ninth
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...time Ed Sheehan crossed the finish line first for the Crimson in 27th place, the only spectator left was the old guy who sells re-washed golf balls on the ninth hole of the Van Cortland public golf course...
...haven't had anything go right for us this season," lamented Harvard cross-country captain Stein Rafto after the harriers journeyed to New York City yesterday to finish ninth out of a ten-school field competing in the Heptagonals at Van Cortland Park...
...leather was for whitetrash townie dropouts and all Paris' shirts had a crocodile on the left tit. The days of covert co-optations and a credit to his race. Shanghaied off a street corner on the basis of a high I.Q. test and a higher shooting percentage for his ninth-grade five fixed up with a minority-athletic scholarship and a battery of tutors, and a summer-in-the-country boarding program to instill a taste for the good life, Paris was a fox in the hen house. It was days of sit-ins and Freedom Riders, when SNCC...
DIED. The Dowager Duchess of Marlborough, 96, American-born widow of England's ninth Duke of Marlborough; in Northampton, England. Friend of Degas, Rilke and Proust-who praised her "magnificence and charm"-the Duchess presided over Blenheim Palace until she and her husband separated in 1933. For the past four decades, she had lived reclusively in a farmhouse with dozens of spaniels...
When the Dodgers went into the ninth inning of their third play-off game against Philadelphia trailing 4-3, the long season and all of Lasorda's rah-rah boosting of his team finally paid off. Vic Davalillo, fleet-footed salvage from the Mexican League, bunted safely. Manny Mota-told in the spring that his responsibility was pinch-hitting because "when you open your suitcase, four hits fall out"-doubled off the wall in left field. A flurry of Dodger hits and Los Angeles was one game away from the pennant. Asked what had been his instructions...