Word: eighth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After touring the Eighth Army's 145-mile front last week, TIME Correspondent Bud Hutton cabled...
Antitank Minefields. The Reds use less barbed wire and fewer mines and trip flares than the Eighth Army, probably because they have less. However, allied tanks which now & then push out on raids have run into heavy antitank minefields. Communist armor has recently begun to reappear on roads leading to the front. In the past two months, more than 30 enemy tanks have been destroyed, some 20 more damaged...
...long harangue in which he called the Korean truce talks all but hopeless because of the U.N.'s "unreasonable demands." The white-thatched old propaganda monger called General James Van Fleet a "latterday cannibal," added that he was unfit to conduct the truce talks. Since Van Fleet, the Eighth Army's military commander, has no hand or voice in the ceasefire negotiations, Vishinsky's attack was either a willfully silly distortion or a ludicrous mistake...
Nuclear Physicist Enrico Perm!, 1938 Nobel Prize winner, who started the first controlled nuclear chain reaction, dropped in at the University of Rochester, picked up a Doctor of Science degree, his eighth honorary diploma...
That November night, in the first performance of the Met's new Rigoletto (TIME, Nov. 26), blonde Hilde Gueden overcame her nervousness and measured up right to the last eighth note. She has done the same in every role she has tackled since...