Word: eighth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When word got back to the town that it had been chosen for such dubious distinction, Mel Ruder, 36, founder-editor of the Hungry Horse News, took immediate issue. Himself a consistent reader of TIME since the eighth grade, Ruder decided to conduct an investigation to learn whether Hungry Horse hungered for TIME treatment of the news...
...Losses on both sides, for the past month, have been heavy (see box). An Eighth Army spokesman said that, according to "rockbottom" front-line estimates, the enemy had lost 16,700 men in the week ending Oct. 12. One captured North Korean officer said that his 4,000-man outfit had lost half its strength; another said that the North Korean army was "practically nonexistent." A Chinese corps of 30,000 men was observed moving eastward to back up the mangled Korean Reds. ¶ General Van Fleet appeared to be hitting the enemy with a sort of one-two punch...
Brown placed but one other man besides Molineux in the first fifteen finishers. Hal Gerry and Dave Cairns picked up fifth and sixth spots for the Crimson, with Emil San Soucie in eighth and Hugh Maguire in the tenth position to round out the Harvard scoring...
...Eighth Army now fighting in Korea is "the best U. S. army I've ever seen" Martin reports. A lot of their present skill he attribute to General Ridgway's "tremendous faculty for inspiring teamwork...
Captain Dave Gregory led the field, and finished the four and one half mile course in 22:21, followed by Ram captain Ray Lister in 22:25. The next Crimson runners to finish were Dave Cairns, eighth in 23:38, Hubert Maguire, ninth, four seconds later, and Bruce Phillips tenth. Hal Gerry was twelfth and Emil San Soucie fourteenth. The last four are sophomores...