Word: eighth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...European View. The main-event race was a 100-miler for big cars like the one that had killed Bob Wilder the day before. On the eighth lap, with last year's winner, Driver Bill Spear, leading in his Ferrari-Mexico, the spectators got another jolt. Some 55 seconds behind Spear, in fourth place, was Harry Grey, 37, one-time British professional driver and now a Long Island sales manager for European cars. Pushing his Jaguar at an 80-m.p.h. clip, Grey went into a spin, flipped over a time and a half, skidded to an upside-down stop...
...eighth inning, as the tension rose, the Browns' Rookie Shortstop Bill Hunter made a diving stop of a hot grounder and threw out the base runner by a step. Bobo, who had already driven in three runs, enough to win his own game, heaved a huge sigh. In the ninth, the pressure finally began to unsettle Bobo just a little. He walked the first man on four straight pitches, issued three more balls to the next batter. Manager Marion was so jittery that he could not bring himself to go to tie mound to try and settle Bobo down...
...grim winter of 1942, while the Afrika Korps and the British Eighth Army were slugging it out in Cyrenaica, Winston Churchill rose in the House of Commons and said: "We have a very daring and skillful opponent against us, and, may I say across the havoc of war, a great general." Even before he died in 1944, Erwin Rommel had achieved legendary status among his Anglo-Saxon foes. By now he has a safe niche among those defeated military commanders-Lee and Napoleon are outstanding examples-who rise at least equal to their conquerors in the esteem of the military...
...failure of the quartermaster to keep him adequately supplied which Rommel blames for his ultimate defeat beginning at El Alamein. Even in his gallant tribute to the man who beat him, he injects a bitter note on the Eighth Army's superior supply situation: "Montgomery did not leave the slightest detail out of his calculations . . . His principle was to fight no battle unless he knew for certain he would win it. Of course, that is a method that will only work given material superiority; but that he had ... It would be difficult to accuse Montgomery of ... a serious strategic...
...Crimson varsity crew would be the best in the East. Four feet more and the Crimson freshman crew would be the best in the East. As it is, they are both the second-best, with the Harvard jayvee boat the third-best, as a result of the Eighth Annual Eastern Association of Rowing Colleges Regatta held today on the Potomac...