Word: eighth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Greater headlines have gone to Chou En-lai and to Marshal Chu Teh, but the man next in line is presumed to be Liu Shao-chi, Moscow-trained party theoretician. Last week Red China published his 16,000-word keynote speech to the 19-day closed session of the eighth National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party. His confident theme: "In the past the party concentrated its efforts mainly on socialist revolution . . . Now we can and must concentrate on socialist construction...
Clap to Silence. One contestant stopped the music to complain that the orchestra was not following him. Snapped Steinberg: "They are going slow because you let them." At one point he clapped the orchestra to silence and commented: "One group played their eighth notes too fast; did you spot it?" The contestant thought that it was the second violins. "To my ear," said Steinberg, "it was the violas, but I did not want to let out the secret...
...Kerr is done with baseball now, and it is his proud boast that "I've never gotten anything out of the game but what it paid me." But last week, at 64, he was enjoying a great deal more than that. When Stan ("The Man") Musial became the eighth man ever to make 3.000 big-league hits (TIME, May 12), Dickie Kerr and his wife heard the news in their new Houston home, a neat white frame bungalow that had just been bought for them, out of gratitude and a sense of everlasting obligation, by a sore-armed Class...
...Slumping in the American League cellar, the demoralized Detroit Tigers still managed to collect a league record. Lumbering Outfielder Gus Zernial stepped to the plate as a pinch hitter in the last of the eighth inning in a game with the Yankees, sighted in on one of Relief Pitcher Ryne Duren's fast balls and belted it into the stands for a home run. It was not enough to win the game (Yanks 5, Tigers 4), but it was Zernial's eighth pinch-hit homer, one more than the previous league mark he had shared with Boston...
...colt Tim Tam saw racing room ahead, ran like a thief and stole
the $133,950 Preakness from Sunny Blue Farm's Lincoln Road by a long
length and a half. The weather was fine, the track was fast, and when
Silky Sullivan, the California clown, clumped home eighth, he had no
excuses. The truth was out: the Western hotshot is an Eastern
horselaugh.