Word: ninth
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...week: "There is little concern about the ominous signs. As the odds mount against them, Rhodesians are eagerly participating in a contest to compose lyr ics for their newly adopted national an them. The tune, replacing God Save the Queen, is the Ode to Joy from Beethoven's Ninth Symphony...
Rain drenched Boston on a particular Saturday in the heat of the pennant race, but I sat through nearly seven hours of baseball in Fenway Park to watch my teams surrender a four-run lead in the ninth inning then lose in the tenth. Afterwards, I washed down the defeat with rancid coffee, several perusals of the damp and dismal scorecard, and the lofty notion that I had, after all, witnessed a game that would slosh itself into history--perhaps as the famous Rain Game...
Kearns would become the second tenured woman in the Government Department, and the ninth tenured woman in the Faculty. Harvard's Affirmative Action Plan, approved by the federal government last November, predicted that there would be two tenured women in the Government Department and 11 tenured women in the Faculty by June...
...Sutton, who blanked the Bucs in the first game, tamed the Pirate bats on only three hits for eight innings. Reliever Mike Marshall applied the finishing touches in the ninth...
...first round in what some commentators are already calling "the energy war" was fired by President Gerald Ford in a Sept. 23 speech to the ninth annual World Energy Conference in Detroit. Amplifying his "straight talk" to the U.N. General Assembly the previous week (TIME, Sept. 30), Ford deplored "the pulverizing impact of energy price increases on every aspect of the world economy." He warned: "Sovereign nations cannot allow their policies to be dictated or their fate decided by artificial rigging and distortion of world commodity markets ... Exorbitant prices can only distort the world economy, run the risk of worldwide...