Word: eighth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Many of the reports issued by brokers present sober, useful information. But there are also many "blue-sky" writeups that promise great things and fast-buck operators who spread rumors. "The same wild rumor that moved a stock one-eighth a year ago seems to move it eight points today," says Paul Windels Jr., Manhattan district boss...
...lowered the boom. Six singles, two triples, and a walk produced seven Navy runs in this inning, as neither Kipp nor Renny Johnston was able to produce any effective pitching. This mammoth splurge secured the game for the Middies, and rendered single runs by the varsity in the sixth, eighth, and ninth innings of no real consequence...
Norm Siebern's eighth-inning home run combined with Bob Turley's two-hit pitching yesterday to enable the New York Yankees to come up with a 3-2 victory over Boston's Red Sox in their twice-postponed opener. The only hits for the Red Sox were a double by Pete Runnels in the seventh inning and a single by Vic Wertz in the ninth...
...Tibet between Chinese garrisons and the hard-riding Khamba tribesmen, who boast that they go nowhere without their rifles, which they frequently use on everyone from rich merchants to officials from Lhasa to Communist cadres. Twenty-three years ago, when straggling parts of Mao Tse-tung's Eighth Route Army crossed Khamba territory on the famed Long March to Yenan, Khamba raiders picked off Reds by the dozens. Reportedly, Mao has never forgotten what happened-or forgiven...
Orpheus consisted of eight tableaux; seven of them were set to tape-recorded folk music, while the eighth (it lasted a fury-full 20 minutes) proved to be solid concrete. The surrealist scenery included outsize paintings of skeletons and angels with empty faces. In the first tableau Orpheus (danced by Choreographer Béjart) was transformed by turns into a snarling tiger ("His loins," says the program, "are heavy with solitude"), an arm-flapping eagle, a scared rat ("His heart is full of holes, like a cheese"). In a later scene he encountered assorted characters, including Romeo and Venus...