Word: eighth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...although the Lion swimmers are a vastly improved lot, chances are strong that Hal Ulen's squad will win its eighth...
...which the jury found Provoo guilty: 1) offering his services to the Japanese army following his capture at Corregidor in May 1942; 2) helping to cause the execution of one fellow prisoner by denouncing him to the Japanese as "uncooperative"; 3) participating in two wartime Japanese propaganda broadcasts. The eighth U.S. citizen to be convicted of treason since World War II, Provoo was the second to be convicted for acts committed while a prisoner...
Charlie Elliott is down to sixth position, followed by Johnny Rauh seventh, Mike Ward eighth, and Steve Sonnabend ninth. Guy Paschal is the alternate...
General James A. Van Fleet, retiring commander of the U.S. Eighth Army, was given a farewell title: honorary degree of Doctor of Laws from the Seoul National University. Among those who gathered to hear Dr. Van Fleet's acceptance speech: the National Assembly of the Republic of Korea...
...Boston, Carl ("Bobo") Olson, the U.S.'s top-ranking middleweight boxer now that Sugar Ray Robinson has retired, scored his eighth straight victory (and 51st in 56 bouts) over Norman Hayes with a unanimous ten-round decision. Hopeful next on Olson's agenda: a bout with Britain's Randy Turpin, who took the title from Robinson, then lost it again...