Word: eight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stampede for the wide open spaces since the California gold rush. TV's western boom began four years ago, and every season since then, the hay haters have hopefully predicted that the boom would soon bust. Yet every season it has been bigger than the last. Last week eight of the top ten shows on TV * were horse operas. The networks have saddled up no fewer than 35 of the bangtail brigade, and 30 of them are riding the dollar-green range of prime night time (from 7:30 to 10 p.m.). Independent stations too have taken...
...Swastika. What seems clear is that New Haven police charged and swung their nightsticks with unnecessary relish as they tried to disperse a crowd that probably did not need dispersing. One Yalie got an eight-stitch dent in his skull, and a young, chesterfield-wearing history teacher was arrested and then, he claims, punched in the kidneys. A fire truck showed up, hosed down a dormitory that had a swastika and yacht flags in its windows. By the end of the brawl, 16 Yalemen, most of them the worse for wear, had been wagoned off to police headquarters-where they...
...stay with them long. He had ideas about the biggest problem in applied physics-how to generate controlled fusion power-and Brookhaven had no such program. In 1956 he took his scheme for a fusion reactor to the University of California, which had become acquainted with his yeasty mind eight years before...
...prime cinematic requirement that a motion picture must have motion. Little Anne was 13 years old when her family, together with another Jewish family and a querulous dentist, were forced to hide out in the attic of an Amsterdam factory to escape the Nazi pogrom. For two years the eight fugitives, supplied with meager amounts of food by friends, crouched in the same wretched refuge until the Nazis found them - only nine months before the liberation of Holland. Of the eight, only Anne's father, Otto Frank, escaped death in concentration camps, and it was he who released Anne...
...trails five, ten, even 25 minutes behind. Its nearly 1,300 tickers, which transmit prices to 215 cities, print only 300 characters a minute. But able AmEx President Edward ("Ted") McCormick, 49, a onetime SECommissioner who has brought the AmEx a long stride toward maturity since he came in eight years ago, plans soon to modernize by installing 500-character-a-minute machines...