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...Palestine this year, Christmas night was the eve of Hanukkah ("The Feast of Lights"), an eight-day celebration commemorating the great victories of Judas Maccabeus over the Syrians in 165 B.C. By Christmas Eve, the Israeli army was once again on the march, breaking the uneasy truce that had begun to settle on Palestine...
This summer, at the eight-day meeting of the Lenin Academy, Lysenko rose to insist on his views once again. Several scientists, including Professor Zhebrak, tried to start the old argument. It was then that Lysenko sprang his big surprise: his theory had been officially endorsed by the Central Committee...
Three veteran actors and directors joined HDC ranks last night to help resuscitate the Club's spring production, Irwin Shaw's "The Survivors." The play collapsed after an eight-day run in New York despite loud acclaim from critics Wolcott Gibb an Brooks Atkinson...
...whole thing had served to dash into British and French faces the fact that western European union (see above) had historic economic obstacles. In Washington, the International Monetary Fund (which must approve major currency devaluations) officially disapproved of the French action after an eight-day debate. "Sometimes," said wizened Camille Gutt of Belgium, Fund Managing Director, "we stayed up all night. Sometimes we didn't eat. It was not pleasant...
...Barrie's Peter Pan, the hungry crocodile that had swallowed an eight-day clock went "tick., tick, tick, tick" loud enough to warn Captain Hook of its approach. The crocodile eventually got him anyway; defeated by Peter Pan, the pirate threw himself into the crocodile's waiting jaws...