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Word: ninth (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Junior Bobby Greenhill, playing at ninth seed, also fell to his opponent, In Kim, in four games...

Author: By Rebecca D. Knowles, | Title: Raquetmen Give Big Red Big Pain, 7-2 | 12/11/1989 | See Source »

...eighth and ninth seeds, Paul Gardi and Seth Handy--both playing in their first varsity match of the season--were also foiled by the Diplomats in their first games. But never fear, they quickly jumped back to the offensive and captured the next three games...

Author: By Rebecca D. Knowles, | Title: Racquetmen Record 2nd Straight Shutout | 12/4/1989 | See Source »

Vanessa Venable was teaching ninth grade in the black school system in 1959 when the county shut down the public schools. The blacks knew nothing in advance. "I went to school one morning," Mrs. Venable remembers, "and the superintendent told us that Prince Edward County had gone out of the education business. I was shocked. It was like you had been living with vipers all around you and didn't know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Prince Edward and the Past | 11/20/1989 | See Source »

...tell you," Bush said to reporters, explaining the nation's priorities, "this issue (abortion rights) ranks about ninth to 14th...

Author: By Adam L. Berger, | Title: A Slam-Dunk for the Democrats | 11/16/1989 | See Source »

They became at least the 86th and 87th Colombian journalists to be killed or wounded in this decade -- and the ninth and tenth known victims since the cocaine cartels vowed retaliation last August against "journalists who have attacked and abused us." Although drug lords have also menaced judges, law- enforcement officials and industrialists, they have hit news organizations with special savagery. Pulido, in fact, escaped injury in an explosion at his headquarters in June. When he was struck down last week, the national newspaper El Tiempo editorialized that the attack was probably a punishment for his years of unrelenting struggle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: The Deadliest Beat | 11/13/1989 | See Source »

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