Word: eighth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...public funds. Both schools require neat dress; the Brooklyn unit even insists on ties. In the classroom, the boys usually keep up a cocky, running banter with their teacher. But they can talk with the weariness of old age about their problems. "I'm a troublemaker," said one eighth grader. "I started everything that ever happened...
...Oelssner kept slashing away. He demanded that East Germany frankly explain its predicament to Moscow. He also prescribed frankness with the East German people. "We can get by," he said, "with promising the masses the lifting of rationing a fifth, possibly a sixth, time. But the seventh or eighth time, no one will believe...
Early one morning last week, a 14-year-old Korean boy named Kim Choon II was nabbed by a guard inside the Eighth Army's aircraft maintenance center at Ascom City, 15 miles west of Seoul. He had broken into noncommissioned officers' quarters, pocketed a traveling clock, cigarette lighter, flashlight, two PX ration books, $6 worth of scrip. He was frog-marched to the guardroom, where a group of U.S. officers and enlisted men, irked by 20 burglaries in six weeks, decided to teach Kim a lesson...
...developed a gyroscopically oriented navigation system called SINS (for Ship's Inertial Navigation System). After a year's testing aboard a converted cargo ship, SINS racked up an accuracy score of less than half-a-mile deviation, and recently has narrowed that down to about an eighth of a mile...
...Korean National Airlines plane neared Seoul, they held U.S. civilian pilot, Willis Hobbs, at pistol point. Instead of touching down at Seoul, the twin-engined DC-3 flew by the airport, headed north toward the demilitarized zone, 25 miles away, and crossed over into North Korea. Said an Eighth Army spokesman later: "There was no reason to intercept a known friendly aircraft, and by the time it was nearing the demilitarized zone line it was too late...