Word: eighth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After the Dodgers piled up a 3 to 0 lead in the first four innings, the Phillies came back to finally tie it up in the eighth on Andy Seminick's homer with one man on. Then Richie Ashburn and Willie "Puddinhead" Jones singled in the ninth to hand the Brooks their fourth defeat in their last five games...
...conference adopted the Sub-Commission method of listing separately the types of utterances which a nation might punish without violating the Covenant. It preserved the seven specific limitations (such as 'expressions which incite persons to alter by violence the system of government'), and added an eighth--the so-called Indian amendment-which gave an option to pass laws against 'the systematic diffusion of deliberately false or distorted reports which undermine friendly relations between peoples and States'. For this there is no counter part in the United States, and the amendment was opposed by the American delegate in the Legal Committee...
...Angels in the Outfield," the newest diamond saga, has taken over Paul Douglas from the original. Douglas, playing manager to a score of real live Pittsburgh Pirates, is a man fashioned after the great Leo Durocher. His boisterousness seems to be responsible for the position of the Pirates, eighth in the National League. Then one day an Angel makes a deal with him whereby the Pirates get a pennant if Douglas calms down...
...Eighth Army last week was fighting about as hard as it was possible to fight without launching an all-out offensive -which the U.N. generals had no intention of doing just yet. The Eighth was engaged in a series of local "limited offensives" which had three aims: 1) to push the Reds off strategic high ground; 2) to kill as many of them as possible; 3) to knock their big buildup off balance...
...Turpin shook off the punches that did land, and began crowding in. Hooking when he should have jabbed, jabbing when he should have hooked, his head sometimes a craning target, sometimes sunk between his shoulders, he moved onto the offensive. In the seventh, Robinson was plainly tiring; in the eighth and ninth, Turpin took charge...