Word: eighth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pentagon estimated the proportion of Communist-to-U.N. casualties for the last six weeks at 20 to i. Said the Eighth Army's Matt Ridgway: "The allied ground, sea, and air forces have let a lot of air out of the inflated balloon of the Chinese military establishments. Meanwhile, in the degree to which we deflate her military reputation, we influence the thinking of millions & millions of people in Asia. Eventually it must react on the political actions of their government. This would be of tremendous importance...
Police took the chocolate. Later, they arrested 29-year-old Irishman Hugh Creany Laverty. Last week, at Laverty's trial, Dr. John Anderson, dentistry lecturer, testified that the teeth marks on Miss Maloney's chocolate corresponded with Laverty's dental pattern. It was Laverty's eighth offense; he was sent to jail for two years...
...Lowell House Musical Society will present the first American production of Jean Baptiste Lully's "Amadis de Gaule" as its eighth full-length opera opening tonight at 8:30 and continuing through Saturday night. The third performance was added this year after full houses limited the number able to attend in previous years...
...week's fighting was expensive for the Communists. Eighth Army announced 13,720 new Chinese and North Korean casualties. But the enemy, especially the Chinese, still fought stubbornly and skillfully. Any wishful thinking about worsening Chinese morale was dispelled by the Pentagon's prisoner-of-war count: as against 136,000 North Koreans captured since the war began, only 1,800 Red Chinese had surrendered...
...eighth time in the four years of the Fourth Republic, France was without a cabinet. Foreign representatives at the Big Four conference arrived in Paris this week with no French ministers to receive them. The 1951 budget sat in the Assembly without a leadership to push it through. France, the hope of Western Europe, could barely carry on its routine internal administration...