Word: eighth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...supplies into a new build-up for a second strike at the U.N. forces. Unless the Chinese decide to throw in their air power, their strategy is almost certain to be the same as before-trying to swamp the U.N. forces by weight of numbers. Last week the U.S. Eighth Army was confident it could again stand up to the Reds' massed attacks, would again exact heavy casualties for expendable ground...
...varied assortment of curves, drops, and other slow stuff. The Cantabs loaded the bases with none out in the fifth on three walks; but Russ Johnson hit into a double play and Ralph Robinson flied out to and the threat. Walt Greeley drove a pinch hit single in the eighth inning for the only other hit off Brooks...
Ward's curve ball consistently broke low, putting him behind most batters, but his speed was sufficient to keep most of the Tech nine bouncing the ball back to the infield. Sangiolo went to second on a wild pitch in the the eighth and Ward walked two consectively in the fifth, but no other Tech batters went past first base...
...eighth and ninth Harvard runs came in the seventh inning. Akillian, Walsh, and Johnson singled consecutively, Johnson's blow scoring Akillian. Walsh came in when Tech shortstop Fred St. Laurent threw Kev Reilly's grounder beyond the first baseman's reach. HARVARD ab r h po a e Foynes, cf 4 2 2 4 0 0 Robinson, rf 5 1 2 1 0 0 White, ss 4 1 1 1 2 0 Akillian, lf 4 2 1 0 0 0 Walsh, c 4 1 1 4 0 0 Johnson, 1b 4 1 3 11 0 0 Reilly...
...heard her picking out radio tunes on a toy piano at the age of two. He tested her further, discovered she had absolute pitch.* Also, "she was really born with a fiddle hand," broad and dexterous. At three, Diana got her first violin, a four-ounce affair, one-eighth adult size, and began taking lessons from her father...