Word: eighth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Early last week nothing but bad roads and poor maps slowed the U.N. advance toward the Korean-Manchurian border. R.O.K. officers whose divisions were racing through northwest Korea jubilantly reported to Eighth Army headquarters: "We will not stop until we bathe our sabers in the Yalu River...
Winston Churchill took a flying trip to the Newmarket races, watched his four-year-old Colonist II carry the Churchill pink-and-chocolate silks past the post for his eighth win this year and total purses...
...luscious as U.S. strings, not so dry and nasal as the French. The woodwinds, clearly articulate, played with a tone of pure gold. It was a glossily polished performance-for some a disappointment because of its fussiness. But all in all, through Sibelius' tone poem Tapiola, a Beethoven Eighth Symphony laid out with the precision and charm of an English garden, and a final lurid "Dance of the Seven Veils" from Richard Strauss's Salome, the audience heard distinctively clean-clipped accents and gorgeous sonorities unmarred by a single ugly sound...
...high spirits, MacArthur flew back to Pyongyang. Waiting to meet him there was Lieut. General Walton Walker, commander of the Eighth Army. Quipped MacArthur: "Have you got any celebrities here to greet me? What about Kim Buck...
Dartmouth's Walt Clarkson led the attack, finishing second, nine seconds behind. Yardling captain Emill San Soucie has in the third position. Hal Gerry, Bruce Phillips, and Leo Carroll rounded at the Crimson scorers, in sixth, seventh, and eighth places...