Word: eighth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...were General Maxwell D. Taylor, slated to become U.S. (and U.N.) supreme commander in the Far East this week, and Rhee's old friend, retired General James A. Van Fleet, who hailed Rhee as "the king of fighters . . . Tiger of Korea." Van Fleet told the Koreans that, as Eighth Army commander, he had submitted three battle plans to his superiors in 1953. Any one of the plans, said he, would have ensured victory in the Korean war; all were disapproved. "We had the enemy on the run!" cried Van Fleet. "We could have won here, and we should have...
...Guild was asking the Eagle to accept "terms that would have doubled the Eagle's great financial loss of 1954." He pointed out that on the Guild's list of 177 U.S. dailies, the Eagle's scale ($131.50 a week minimum for experienced reporters) was eighth in the U.S., right behind Manhattan's seven big dailies...
...General Maxwell Taylor, 53, appointed chief of the U.S. (and United Nations) Far East Command to replace retiring General John E. Hull. A handsome six-footer, Taylor was wounded once and jumped twice into battle with his 101st Airborne Division in World War II. He was the Eighth Army's last combat commander in Korea, incidentally learned Korean (he also speaks French, German, Italian, Spanish and Japanese). On a recent flight to Washington, lean-flanked Max Taylor, who believes in constant conditioning, exercised with dumbbells in the plane aisle, read nine Greek plays in translation and a volume...
...Liberals, the Japanese were sweeping away a regime that represented to the majority of Japanese a decade of meek complaisance to the commands and suggestions of the U.S. occupiers. Yoshida was re-elected from his own Kochi district last week, and his former Foreign Minister ran a dramatically repudiated eighth in a nine-man race...
...match was decided when Joel Reynolds registered the fifty Crimson win in his eighth position match, 8-15, 15-10, 15-8 and 15-13. Robin Magaowan defeated his Eli counterpart in four games where John Davis was pushed into five games by his Blue opponent...