Word: nine
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Only two seniors, Co-Captains Jon Bernheimer and Jim Masland, play in the top nine. The two veterans provide the necessary on-court and off-court support. Bernheimer, described by teammate Jeremy Fraiberg as "diligent, committed, and intense," leads by example; he plays, he trains, and he works with unrivaled intensity...
East Germany's Communist Party granted the ultimate concession when its leader, Egon Krenz, and the other nine members of the Politburo resigned last week, along with the entire 163-member Central Committee. Three days later, Krenz stepped down as head of state, a move that left him stripped of the powers he had inherited only a month and a half earlier from his discredited predecessor, Erich Honecker. Manfred Gerlach, who heads a small party until now bound to the Communists, was named to replace Krenz in the ceremonial post of President. Honecker meanwhile was in quick succession expelled from...
...perfect day for baseball. Now if only the baseball had been perfect. At McKechnie Field in Bradenton on the Gulf Coast, the midweek weather might have been auditioning for a Florida picture postcard, but the hometown Explorers committed three errors, looked orphaned on the base paths and lost by nine runs. After the game, Wayne Garrett, the former New York Met, who entered the lineup in the eighth inning, was asked if he was exhausted from playing. "No," Garrett sighed, "but I was tired of watching...
...part of a team that "eliminated" Mxenge in 1981. After being named in Nofomela's affidavit, former police captain Dirk Coetzee went public in the weekly newspaper Vrye Weekblad with a story of how he headed a police hit squad between 1980 and 1982 that carried out at least nine assassinations, including that of Mxenge, as well as numerous bombings and abductions. "I was in the heart of the whore," declared Coetzee, who accused senior police officers of authorizing assassinations...
...Opposition. The party and government acknowledged popular unrest by meeting with representatives of nine opposition groups and five non-Communist parties...