Word: ninth
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There were also some pats on the back. TIME'S 60th anniversary issue elicited 496 letters (ninth highest for the year), most in praise. "It is the events of my life passing before me," said a nostalgic reader. Nor was it surprising to find one section of that issue singled out for compliments: the highlights from 60 years of TIME'S letters to the editor...
President in an interview what he would do if it were the last of the ninth of the seventh game of the World Series with the bases loaded and he were pitching to O'Neill. "I'd hit him right in the head," responded Reagan unhesitatingly. A nice line, but if the score were tied, wouldn't the President lose the game...
...Yugoslav Jure Franko, the tall, good-looking G.S. specialist who won the silver, the first medal of any kind the Yugoslavs had ever won in a Winter Olympics. The 21-year-old Franko is less well known than Yugoslav Slalom Stars Bojan Krizaj and Boris Strel, who finished ninth and fifth, but Franko's performance was no real surprise. He ranked fifth in G.S. World Cup points coming into Sarajevo. A silver won by an ordinary Yugoslav would have been a good present for the Games' hospitable hosts, but Franko is a universal favorite who helps out journalists...
...action, Bill Kealey took ninth, Tim Allen took fourteenth and Mike Smart took sixteenth in the cross country relay finished third overall...
...included its first win on the road in 17 contests, over Columbia, and a hair-raising 62-60 loss to Cornell. The Crimson is the best foul shooting team in the country, with junior guard Bob Ferry (46-for-49) at number one in the land and Joe Carrabino ninth. And the Duke game is the first of seven in the next 10 days-the momentum has to start somewhere, sometime. It might as well be tonight...