Word: eighth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Theoretically, North Korean territory was again up for grabs. But the Eighth Army's James Van Fleet squelched all thought of a U.N. offensive: "We will not sacrifice our men needlessly. What is the use of thousands of casualties if it is questionable what good they will...
...lists were rushed by helicopter to the U.N. "peace camp" at Munsan, where a special Eighth Army casualty team began mimeographing 30 copies. The work was finished at i a.m. By priority radio, the Eighth Army flashed the lists to the Pentagon in Washington...
...Among the earliest surviving examples of Gothic stained glass, they are also the best. Yet the men who created them were amateurs, who may have had some knowledge of enameling but had little or none of glass. They learned as they worked. Each tiny fragment of glass, averaging an eighth of an inch thick, was chipped with the care and precision that jewels require. Laid flat on a full-scale drawing of the window, the fragments were inserted into the grooves of malleable lead bars that formed the panels. Only after the completed panels were fastened to iron crossbars...
...George T. Baker. His passenger traffic reaches a peak in winter on its main-line run from New York to Miami, but it slumps during the summer. Last week Baker made a deal to give National a big payload the year round and move it up from tenth to eighth largest U.S. airline. (It ranks an estimated fifth in net operating income among domestic airlines.) National will buy Colonial Airlines for $7 million worth of stock (⅞ of a share of National to be exchanged for one share of Colonial), subject to approval by CAB and the stockholders of both...
...White mice," he explained, "had severe deformities of the brain, skull and skeleton when the mother had too little oxygen on the eighth day of pregnancy. Cleft palate was a common result of exposure on the 14th day, and a curious defect of the eye and eyelids--so-called 'open eye'--when the pregnancy had advanced to about sixteen days...