Word: eighth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this point, however, when the Crimson runners were feeling the pace, Yale's Carroll and Morrison slowly moved up into fourth and seventh places, passing the point-makers. Fitzgerald, who had run himself out following Benjamin eary in the race, fell back to ninth, giving the harriers sixth, eighth, ninth, and twelfth places...
...Virgin and as the Nun in Max Reinhardt's 1924 production of The Miracle. She was spared the rigors of a formal education, and to this day claims that her spelling is so phonetic that when she has a cold she writes Bs for Ms. Her father, the Eighth Duke, seems to have been a dull dog. But this was England of two generations ago, and when a duke spoke, people listened. DUKE PRAYS FOR RAIN, ran a headline. After a suitable interval, there was another headline: DUKE'S PRAYERS ANSWERED...
...Italy in a beat uniform of blue jeans and cowboy shirt, boasted that he had run through $4,000 in just a few weeks of high living on the Riviera. He reportedly fell in love with German Actress Sonia Ziemann, who had starred in the movie version of The Eighth Day of the Week...
...taps that gave the Yankees a pair of unearned runs in the early going. Catcher Del Crandall failed twice at bat with the bases loaded. It hardly mattered that he struck a solo homer to tie the game in the sixth; pesky Elston Howard promptly untied it with an eighth-inning single, and the Yankees were home...
...eighth of nine children of a poor tenant tobacco farmer, Hodges started working as a twelve-year-old hand in Marshall Field & Co.'s Fieldcrest mill at Spray, N.C., worked his way through the University of North Carolina ('19), then went back to the Spray mill. He rose rapidly, became vice president of Marshall Field in 1943, and in 1950 he retired, at 52, to devote the rest of his life to public service. He served a year as industrial chief of the U.S. Economic Cooperation Administration in Germany. In 1952, unwanted and unsupported by the state...