Word: eighth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Colonel Adams commands the U.S. 2nd Division's 23rd Regiment, which was finally identified last week, by permission of Eighth Army censors, as the outfit spearheading the fight for Heartbreak Ridge. This strategic, four-mile-long mountain north of Yanggu (see map) overlooks an important North Korean supply and assembly base to the north. The ridge, said the 2nd Division's commander, was "like a dagger pointing to their heart." The Eighth Army wanted it desperately- and the Reds were just as desperately determined to prevent its capture by U.N. forces...
...first sign of an enemy effort. An army that stops to tie its shoestrings seldom regains the,initiative. I couldn't allow my forces to become soft and dormant. I couldn't let them slip into a condition that eventually would cause horrendous casualties. So the Eighth Army kept needling the enemy with limited objective attacks...
...school and, to judge by Broadway, playwrights ought to. Rushing the season, all sorts of wildly sanguine early birds fly by night only to crash by morning. This year September was particularly shuddersome, and its last two shows passed into history even before the calendar did. Out West of Eighth was a strapping bore about cowboys in Manhattan; Twilight Walk, concerned with a sex murderer, was a sad mismating of the tabloids and Freud. As of Oct. 1, there were no newcomers among Broadway's Best Bets...
Brooklyn Manager Charley Dressen shot the works. Starting with his ace lefthander, Preacher Roe, he used up a total of seven pitchers trying to cut the Phillies down. In the eighth the Dodgers scored three runs, tied up the game. Going into the last of the twelfth the Phillies threatened again, loading the bases with one out. Brooklyn's Don Newcombe zipped a third strike past Outfielder Del Ennis. But then Philly First Baseman Eddie Waitkus lashed a liner toward Second Baseman Jackie Robinson, who had missed a grounder in the second inning that let in two Philadelphia runs...
Before Thomson came up in the ninth inning, he had already collected two hits, one of them a double. But he had also made two bonehead plays, one of which let in one run and kept the rally going in the Dodgers' big eighth inning...