Word: eight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...across the Rio Grande near McAllen, Texas. Castro spent the next day in McAllen's Casa de Palmas Hotel with the richest Batista-hater of all: ex-President Carlos Prío Socarrás, 55, who had been bounced from office by the dictator's coup eight months before his term was up and began plotting so persistently that he is still under U.S. indictment for violating the Neutrality Act. "Here was the timber of a hero," said Pro. As President, Prío had grafted a fortune; he promised to back Castro with arms and cash...
...began his ministry as missionary professor of New Testament at St. Paul's Divinity School in Wuchang. In 1928 he returned to the U.S. to be rector of Grace Church in Cincinnati, Ohio for five years, then rector of St. Paul's Church in Brookline, Mass, for eight years...
Last year a sacroiliac condition began to bother Atkinson. Three times in the last eight months he had to give up his mounts and rest. Fortnight ago at Florida's Tropical Park, the pain became unbearable. Last week, at 42, on the advice of his physician, he retired. Said he: "I guess I've been around the world a couple of times on horseback in the afternoon. Maybe that's enough...
...Hollywood than in Forest Lawn. Every company in town has used the work of blacklisted people. We're just the first to confirm what everybody knows." Writer Trumbo himself has sold "many screenplays" under nine pseudonyms. Since 1947 Trumbo's income, slashed 90% in the first eight years, has actually risen above his pre-blacklist level...
Finding the art dealers guilty (with sentences as high as four years), the court turned on the experts, declared them guilty as accessories. Réau got a sentence of eight months, suspended, and 20,000 francs fine on the remarkable charge of "delivering numerous certificates without formulating doubts or nuances, based solely on black-and-white pictures." Cordovado, tried in absentia, was sentenced to one year. In effect, the art experts had been held legally responsible for carelessness. Said France-Soir: "Professor Réau's condemnation has caused a profound stupor in university and artistic milieus...