Word: eighth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...embittered old Syngman Rhee, angry because a last-minute head count by the Indians had sent 135 more prisoners (who presumably had changed their minds) back to the Communists, threatened to attack the Indian guards. The U.N. command told Rhee, in effect, that if this happened the Eighth Army would have to repel the assault...
...Crimson, which moved up to the eighth spot in the New England poll this week, would, with a victory tonight, equal its win total for the entire 1952-3 season...
...Reiner strode across the stage as the lights dimmed, shook hands with the concertmaster, and mounted the podium. With a concise snap of his baton, he launched the orchestra into a sweet, crisp performance of an 18th century Concerto Grosso by Corelli, a rollicking version of Beethoven's Eighth Symphony and, after the intermission, a whirling reading of the Dances of Galanta by Hungarian Composer Zoltan Kodaly. As the finale swooped to its finish, the crowd gave a startled "Oh!" and burst into heavy applause...
...fifth ballot Laniel had actually lost strength, but came back strong on the sixth and seventh. On the eighth, grimly determined to stick it out to the end, he was only 22 votes short of victory. Outside the brightly lighted palace, a policeman jerked his head toward it and grated: "That ends it-you'll never again catch me putting my vote in a ballot box." The newspaper Le Monde complained: "Whoever is elected will be badly elected...
...great six-volume history of the war with Triumph and Tragedy, which carried events from the Normandy beaches to final victory, and ended with Churchill's defeat in 1945 at the hands of Labor. With New Guinea and the Marianas, Harvard's Samuel Eliot Morison completed the eighth volume (six more to come) of his U.S. naval history of the war, a job second in scope and flair only to Churchill's own. And from the U.S. Army came Louis Morton's The Fall of the Philippines, Volume 19 of its projected 87-volume official history...