Word: nine
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Including son Robert, third youngest of nine children. Son Joseph Jr., naval aviator, was killed in World War II. Son John is a Massachusetts Congressman who has voted for Marshall Plan funds and military aid to Europe...
...Nine Plays. Rupp relies not only on a lot of shooting (10-15% more than the average team), but constantly demands "speed and a lot of ball handling." Rupp denies that Kentucky's rapid-fire shooting produces razzle-dazzle basketball. "With our nine basic plays," claims Rupp, "we are probably the most definite [i.e., deliberately patterned] team in the country...
This atomic-age potboiler appears to make sense to its adolescent audience. Many adult viewers are soon lost in its trackless, pseudo-technical doubletalk ("Forty-seven degrees inclination, speed seven miles per second; temperature calibrated at zero three; interior pressure stable at nine oh nine"), or by the sudden mid-program appearance on Captain Video's "Scanner" of a five-minute stretch of western movie. Du Mont's Vice President James L. Caddigan, who created Captain Video in 1949, explains: "The western is there to give us the pace and action that...
...give you nine and ninety hours," said the Duke, "to find a thousand jewels and bring them here. When you return, the clocks must all be striking five...
Zitrides said that the was resigning as of March 1, 1951, because he "felt it best for Brown's football future and my own." His team won only one of nine games this season...