Word: eight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...After eight white witnesses had hedged, Chairman Hannah called a recess, turned the record over to the Justice Department. In a studied display of overnight speed, Federal Judge Frank M. Johnson Jr. next day ordered six of the most recalcitrant to testify and produce records at another hearing this week. Alabama-born-and-bred Judge Johnson's threat if they did not: jail terms for contempt of court...
...little compartment were assorted instruments to measure heartbeat rate, blood pressure, body temperature, breathing rate. During the first few minutes of flight, while the missile was accelerating under the thrust of its engines, telemetering devices reported slowed-down and irregular breathing, slightly speeded-up heartbeat. Then, during about eight minutes of weightlessness while the missile was in ballistic flight, breathing and heartbeat went back to normal, indicating that, for eight minutes at least, weightlessness causes no severe immediate physiological changes...
...Amintore Fanfani was the victim of an old Italian parliamentary game he used to be very familiar with. He lost two votes on minor issues because right-wing members of his own party voted in secret against him. He called for an open vote of confidence, won it by eight votes. At the first opportunity to vote in secret again-a bill on wholesale food regulations-he lost again last week. By these methods a Premier may survive for a time, but his authority is severely weakened. One day he falls...
Next afternoon a Communist junk pulled close inshore to the Macao waterfront and, through a bull horn, a Red official explained the shooting. He said "eight American and Chiang Kai-shek spies" had been executed. Macao residents, who had seen but three men die, could only conclude that the rattled Reds were unsure just how much of their riot-breaking had been observed...
Recovering from fifty-eight minutes of its worst hockey since the ignominious loss to Northeastern last year, the varsity sextet came from behind again last night for a 3-2 sudden-death victory over an aroused Colby team at Watson rink...