Word: eighth
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While it may have taken the Eighth Armored Division to cook (and eat) this grotesque quantity of food, preparation could be quite simple. Take, for example, your average recipe for porpoise pudding...
...modern excess can match the monumental efforts of our forbears. I probably wouldn't be hard for most of us to put ourselves out for the court by doing mortal damage to a couple of geese or an eighth of a cow, but even our Victorian friends would turn their noses up at such paltry quantities of grub. And to get a true idea of the real spirit of Christmas, (or any holiday for that matter) you've got to go further back, back to times when eating was a full time occupation...
Fish, in his third season as Harvard mentor, hasn't decided who to start at eighth, ninth and tenth slots, but points to Joe Somers, freshman Chip Robie and veteran Jeff Secrest as likely candidates...
...PROBLEMS of imbalance were troublesome in Ravel, they were considerably more serious in the performance of Beethoven's Eighth Symphony which ended the program. The work offers a rare chance to hear the mature Beethoven in a congenial mood, and has a great deal of intrinsic charm; the composer showed good taste in preferring it to the more popular Seventh. But despite the clean and robust tone of the strings and some fine lyrical playing from the woodwinds, problems of balance so marred the performance that it can neither be called satisfying, nor even very charming. The overassertive brass, despite...
Wrestling finished eighth at the Coast Guard tourney...