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Word: ninth (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Tigers took a 5-3 lead in the seventh with a four-run rally against Sox pitchers Don Aase and Jim Willoughby then held on for the win when reliever Steve Foucault quashed a ninth-inning Boston rally...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: Red Sox Falter in Detroit, 5-4; Slip Three Games Out of First | 9/23/1977 | See Source »

Freddy Lynn launched an eleventh-hour rally by planting an Arroyo fastball in the right-field upper deck to lead off the ninth. But when Rick Burleson drew a walk off Arroyo with two outs, manager Ralph Houk made the call for Foucault, who silenced rookie Ted Cox's loud bat by forcing him into a game-ending...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: Red Sox Falter in Detroit, 5-4; Slip Three Games Out of First | 9/23/1977 | See Source »

...mean what can you say about a team whose two best clutch hitters bat eighth and ninth in the order and one of them is batting a smoldering...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Fear And Losing at Fenway | 9/20/1977 | See Source »

...Half the homework of former days, and less demanding textbooks with more pictures and wider margins. The panel found that eleventh-grade textbooks are now at a ninth-to tenth-grade level...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Why Those Falling Test Scores? | 9/5/1977 | See Source »

...Helmut" all along-finally unbent enough to address the President as "Jimmy." At one remarkable moment, Schmidt, an amateur organist, grabbed the baton from the conductor of the Marine Corps band and led the group in the rousing final measures of the Ode to Joy from Beethoven's Ninth Symphony...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: The Chancellor's Ode to Joy | 7/25/1977 | See Source »

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