Word: eighth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Others: Major "Tooey" Spaatz, later to become head of the Strategic Air Forces, and first Chief of Staff of the new Air Force (1947); Captain Ira Eaker, later commander of the Eighth Air Force and finally Spaatz's deputy...
...Buenos Aires, Maríia Ester, Maríia Fernanda, Marfa Cristina, Carlos Alberto and Franco Jr., the Diligenti quintuplets, dressed up in their party best, joined playmates in giggling at a clown, puffed out 40 candles on a huge cake, then posed for a eighth-birthday picture...
...Lenhardt homered with two on in the top of the eighth, as Kiely seemed to weaken and lose his control. A man in a straw hat happily crushed his cigar with his heel, turned around and showed us a little white card with "50--500" written...
Major General Henry Irving Modes (rhymes with goad us), 52, Deputy Chief of Staff, U.S. Eighth Army, once rated one of the Army's top horsemen. After graduating from West Point (1920), he switched from the cavalry to the infantry. A tough, rangy, veteran line commander, he headed the 28th Division's 112th Infantry Combat team in World War II, was wounded in France, won the Silver Star for gallantry in action. Married, has two daughters, and a son at West Point...
...meeting hall at Frankfurt's fair grounds last week gathered delegates from 22 Socialist parties in 21 nations (including Socialist Britain) and representatives of Socialist groups exiled from Spain, Argentina and Communist countries (including Yugoslavia). It was the eighth international meeting of Socialist parties* since World War II. At one point, four young Germans in blue shirts advanced to the platform bearing a huge scarlet banner on which the words Sozialistische Internationale were emblazoned in gold. But the old red flag was not what it used...