Word: eighths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Item after item was killed, until only $222 million (or about one-eighth) was left in the bill that had originally appropriated $1,648,876,128. The members of the House sat happily watching the slaughter; general feeling was that it could hardly be happening to a more deserving guy than Cannon or a more deserving committee than Rules. Besides, the Representatives all knew that the Senate would restore the cuts...
...Lake County school board will probably try to prove in Circuit Court that the Platts are legally, i.e., at least one-eighth, Negro...
...bleak Depression South. Their families were poor, their lives unhappy, their world warped. Bell's father bragged that "I could always scare him into anything"; Griggs ran away, eventually joined the Army because of a school-bus teasing about a girl friend. Bell spent three years in the eighth grade; when Cowart wrote a Communist-line letter from the Communist prison camp about McCarthyism and McCarranism. one of his teachers said: "How much it would have gratified us when he was in school to have known that he could even identify national figures." Cowart was in the Army...
Because there are (and have been for many years) great differences in smoking practices among the several countries, researchers have a hard time relating Dr. Pascua's figures directly to the cigarette habit. Item: the U.S., with many of the heaviest cigarette smokers, had the eighth highest attack rate but the second lowest rate of increase. (Possible reason: the U.S. may have passed its period of sharpest increase before the 1948-52 period.) Says Copenhagen's Dr. Johannes Clemmesen, noting that Denmark's four-year increase in lung cancer among males was 49%: "The higher a country...
Impossible Rough. Next day, in the playoff, Ben Hogan stayed up with his young competitor until he dropped a stroke on the fifth hole. After that Hogan never caught up. On the 139-yd. eighth he sank a soft, putt for a two; Fleck and his hot putter matched the birdie. On the eleventh Hogan picked up a stroke with a par four; Fleck promptly took it back on the twelfth. Going to the 18th, the bone-weary veteran was one stroke down. There was still a chance, but he hooked his drive off the high tee into thick, impossible...