Word: eighth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Besides being a notable buzzer, Chuck is a deadpan kidder. In spite of his blue eyes and fair skin, he is likely to assert solemnly that he is one-eighth Cherokee Indian. His parents say: "He's liable to tell you anything." Asked about his birthplace, Chuck says: "Ah come from so far up the holler, they had to pipe daylight...
...theater (TIME, Aug. 9). Into the library's finely detailed, 270-seat reproduction of a roofless, balcony-ringed Elizabethan playhouse (which had housed many a learned lecture, but never a play), ticket holders crowded for seven sold-out performances of Julius Caesar. Television cameras moved in for an eighth performance...
Although two Yale men gained the two best total times in the meet, Harvard was able to win by placing men third, fourth, fifth, seventh, and eighth out of the ten best times in a field of 21 entries...
Harvard skiers who placed in the first ten were: third, Larrie Griffin; fourth, captain elect Rod Nordblom; fifth, captain Graham Taylor; seventh, Gordy Abbott; and eighth, Don Justus...
...Eighth Army "Desert Rats," a melting pot of Britons, Australians, Indians, Free French, New Zealanders and others, were never defeated in battle after Monty took command. His method sounded simple: refuse to move until every detail of the battle plan is in place; then slug it out to the finish-chiefly with line bucks but with an end run when necessary. To a flashy quarterback like Rommel, such tactics must have seemed relentlessly dull, relentlessly successful...