Word: eighth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...news came with brutal suddenness. From Korea, Colonel James M. Hanley, chief of the Eighth Army's war crimes section, announced that the Communists in cold blood had slaughtered some 5,500 U.S. prisoners. Up to Nov. 1, 1950, he said, the North Koreans had killed about 3,000 U.S. prisoners. Since the Chinese entered the war, said Hanley, they "have committed most of the Communist atrocity killings." With the air of a man who had detailed records on every case, Hanley declared the Chinese had killed 2,513 U.S. prisoners, ten British, 40 Turkish, and five Belgian...
During the 30 days, fighting would continue. Thus the U.N. negotiators' bugaboo -a "de facto cease-fire"-would be avoided. But the effect might well be the same. Since the Eighth Army would prefer not to spend blood for territory that might later have to be given up, the U.N. would probably reduce its ground activity to token fighting, designed to hold its positions and keep down casualties. Either side, legally, could launch an offensive if it suited its purpose...
...Representatives must be at least 25, Senators 30. Any British subject over 21, except judges, government officials and clergy, may stand for election if he can put up a deposit of ?150 ($420). This deposit is returned if the candidate polls more than one-eighth of the total vote cast; all ten Communist candidates lost theirs last week...
...Louis looked wilted, and walked stiff-legged, like a man on stilts. But no one in the crowd, least of all Louis, saw what was coming. And no 'one in the crowd, even the most rabid of Rocky's fans, really wanted to see it. In the eighth, a solid left hook, thrown wildly from Marciano's awkward, hunched crouch, caught Joe flush on the jaw and sent him tumbling to the canvas. Louis had been knocked down in other bouts, and each time he had come up fighting. He did this time too, but there...
...game of the week was Princeton v. Cornel-Ivy League, effete East and all. Neither team had been beaten or tied. Princeton, ranked eighth in the nation, had its work cut out for it: to stop a squad of fleet backs and the deadeye passing of Cornell Quarterback Rocco Calvo, whose 61% completion record was the nation's best. Cornell, ranked No. 12, had a theoretically easier job: to concentrate on one man. But the man was triple-threat Dick Kazmaier, an All-America back last year and a veteran of Princeton's 1950 championship team...