Word: eight
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only the section of the four-part document that dealt with the need for combatting imperialism. Three other delegations, including the Australian one, also signed only the anti-imperialism passage. The delegates from the tiny militant party in the Dominican Republic had the temerity not to sign at all. Eight other parties initialed only after expressing reservations of one sort or another...
...crown. Almost from the moment of his birth, on Nov. 14, 1948, Charles has been trained for the succession. From the outset, Elizabeth and Philip were determined to give the heir as wide and worldly an education as possible within the limits of royal propriety. Beginning at eight, he was sent to school beyond the Buckingham Palace walls. His first stop was chic Hill House in Knightsbridge, where he had trouble with arithmetic. A year later, he moved on to Cheam, an old and exclusive school in Berkshire that his father had attended...
Despite the Prince's efforts to come to know Wales, there are many who resent his presence. Perhaps the most radical dissenters are the members of the Free Wales Army: eight young members are now on trial in Swansea, and some evidence produced during the trial hints that they planned to storm Caernarvon Castle during the investiture. Some call the army "a standing joke . . . they couldn't blow the skin off a rice pudding." But the organization has managed to commit eleven acts of sabotage against public facilities since March...
...thin, 9-in. by 6-in. portable TV set that opens like a book. Since 90% of all contemporary writers of fiction can do little more with language than concoct dialogue and make wordy pictures, Televolume might benefit writer and reader alike. Novels that normally take six to eight hours to read could be transformed into two hours of viewing simply by eliminating the need to read descriptions of aquiline noses, snowy breasts, silken haunches, the interminable lighting of cigarettes, pouring of drinks and brewing of coffee. Once liberated from the vestigial sanctity of hard covers, the popular novel could...
Secure in the publicist's truth that out of the mouths of stars comes hot copy, Jackie strews absurdities, inconsistencies, generalities, banalities and wisecracks with calculated sincerity: Critics. Egghead-doubledomes! There are about eight influential critics and all they want is books that only they can understand...