Word: eighth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...while yesterday it looked as if the Crimson would clinch the match, its eighth straight victory, in singles play. Bossart, Ufford, and Rauh walked off the court in that order after defeating their opponents in straight sets, and when French pulled his match out after dropping the first set, the varsity had a 4 to 0 lead...
...cage, in the basement of Madison Square Garden while it was being cleaned, strolled forth, spied one Joseph Knapp, a truck driver, chased him up a flight of stairs and treed his prey atop a telephone booth. Foiled for the moment, Jackie lay down beside the lobby's Eighth Avenue doors, put his head on his paws and spent an hour staring moodily at horrified passers-by on the sidewalk outside before he allowed trainers to chase him back to his cage...
Spartan Soldier. In Ridgway NATO got a rugged, spartan soldier who has proved himself a fine field commander. Propelled overnight into command of the U.S. Eighth Army during Korea's darker days, he converted the retreating Eighth into what has been called the finest army ever fielded by the U.S. Truman's firing of Douglas MacArthur thrust Ridgway up suddenly as supreme commander in Japan. In the waning final year of the occupation, he has proved capable of tact and diplomacy (although given to bursts of temper), and has dutifully left most of the big decision making...
...into three platoons of Chinese. Both patrols had the same purpose: to snatch an enemy soldier or two for the intelligence officers to question. The ensuing skirmish was typical of dozens during the so-called "lull," which has cost the U.S. 200 to 250 casualties a week. The Eighth Army's Communique No. 938 reported it this way: "A U.N. patrol operating west of Chorwon engaged three enemy platoons at 2215 (10:15 p.m.), directed artillery and mortar fire on the enemy, and was ordered to disengage at 2257. Estimated enemy casualties in the action were 25 killed...
...addition to these, there are others the center has reservations about. They are marked "not unacceptable, but . . ." Huckleberry Finn is "not unacceptable, but like giving Hamlet to an eighth grader." As for Hans Brinker: or, The Silver Skates, it is "a good story, but should be accompanied by a story of modern Holland to avoid the wooden shoe stereotype...