Word: eighth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...oratorical frenzy. Cried he: "I am being purged because obviously I am a Negro and a Negro should stay on the plantation." Powell called New Yorker De Sapio "a Mississippi boss" and "a liar," spun off insults at Republicans and Democrats alike, announced that he would run for an eighth term as an independent Democrat. ¶ Conservative Republican Frederic R. Coudert Jr., 60, whose vote-pulling power in Manhattan's East Side silk-stocking 17th Congressional District was badly snagged the last two times out by big Democratic protest votes and near defeat, announced that he would...
Sharp-eyed Britons, poring over copies of Burke's Peerage and Debrett's, noted an odd contradiction in the listing for Sir Robert Dillon, 44, eighth Baronet, of Lismullen in Ireland. Burke's indicated that Sir Robert was heirless, and his nearest blood relative was a spinster sister, Laura Maude Dillon, 43. Debrett's took a rosier view and bold-faced the name of a younger brother, Dr. Laurence Michael Dillon, to signify that he was the heir to the baronetcy...
...Princeton's Lake Carnegie, Yale's powerful eight pulled up to the finish of the 1¾-mile course half a length ahead of Cornell, 1¼ lengths in front of Princeton, was clocked in a lake record 8:35.8. ¶ In the eighth race at Massachusetts' Raynham dog track, the greyhounds were faster than the $2 hunch players hoped for. They caught the mechanical bunny, and quit racing to chew on the fur-covered teaser. Track officials took an even worse licking: they had to return $18,345 in bets...
Something comparably cynical in tone, and in spots even similar in treatment, went into Mark Twain's The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg. But Düurrenmatt's tale of the woman who corrupted Gullen is more eerily sinister. In Madame Zachanassian, with her entourage-pet panther, youthful eighth husband, blinded perjurers. American gangsters-are the all-too-obvious symbols of a ruthless, degenerate world. Moreover, it was Claire herself who carefully reduced Gullen to poverty as a prelude to tempting it; and her revenge seems directed almost as much on the town that witnessed her shame...
...shrugged off. At the annual meeting of Radio Corp. of America, President John L. Burns gave 1,275 stockholders of the world's biggest electronics company the bad news about a 29.7% first-quarter decline in earnings, to $9,000,000. But the stock went down only one-eighth of a point...