Word: eighth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thereupon he began barking up the Tennessean's tree. One day at noontime, Stevenson made his way along four blocks of Los Angeles' bustling Eighth Street, stopped strangers on the sidewalk, reached up to shake hands with truck drivers who had stopped for traffic lights, dropped in at a barbershop, paused at a fruit stand to buy an apple, which he munched as he moved on. In the garment district he crawled up on the back of a truck and spoke to the crowd, then sat at a diner counter and had a corned beef on rye, with...
Outside a shabby, nine-story office building on Manhattan's East Twelfth Street one day last week four nattily tailored men climbed out of a taxicab, moved quickly across the sidewalk and into the grimy lobby. There they wedged themselves into the tiny elevator and rode to the eighth floor, headquarters of the Communist Party's biggest propaganda machine, the Daily Worker (circ. 9,000). At exactly 1 p.m. the four men trooped into the Worker's dingy newsrooms, identified themselves to Office Manager Dorothy Robinson as U.S. Treasury tax agents, and presented a lien...
There was no doubt that his seventh-and eighth-graders idolized him. They called him Paul, and "they followed him around," one mother reported, "as if he were a Pied Piper." At lunchtime so many flocked to his table that he decided to use the hour to give extracurricular Spanish lessons. In class he had a knack for arousing the interest of the most unlikely pupils. One day he gave a farm boy who had always hated poetry a piece of paper and said, "Now, imagine you are seated at the plow. What do you see?" The result, says Richer...
...publishers say that Borden Deal is one-eighth Chickasaw Indian. Philosophically, he is also part Manichee-an adherent of the doctrine that good and evil are unmixed. This view of life handicaps a novelist of great honesty...
...scant connection between them. The average Negro high school class was seven students larger than classes in the white high schools. Few Negro high schools could afford to offer the special remedial courses which students coming to Washington from the South urgently needed. One reading test given to eighth-grade Negro students found them lagging behind white students by roughly three years...