Word: eighths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...vaudeville, through the incessant confrontations with celebrity ("She made Calvin Coolidge smile"), the endless charity appearances, and the amiable little extraversions (she once gratified an impulse "to feel a lion," reported that "he was very handsome"). In the end the audience sees her in the yellow leaf of her eighth decade, as she lives and works now with her second companion, Polly Thompson, in their Connecticut home-drying dishes, following her guide rail for a walk in the fields, choring through the morning mail, touching music in a radio, caught reading a volume in Braille beneath the bedclothes late...
...wooden speaking platform under an enormous frame shelter. There was room for 300 fan-waving listeners under the shed, and a public-address system rigged to a station wagon kept the rest of the ridge informed. A magician performed for the small fry, and Pleaz Mobley, the Eighth District's Republican candidate for Congress, sang the old English ballads that the hillfolk love...
...good works are so famed that the veterans' annual fishing trip, now in its eighth year, is a Texas institution, and boat owners are glad to lend their boats for it. Nevertheless, Anderson has nothing but scorn for the "bighearted amateur do-gooder." Says he: "There's no greater waste in the world." The reason is that Anderson does not consider himself an amateur do-gooder. He is a professional...
...bleeding badly. But by then he was warming up to his work. He waddled in, fighting the only way he knows: throwing punches from everywhere, whacking away at Charles with jarring shots that began to find the range. They hurt no matter where they hit. In the eighth, Rocky was at his brawling best. He bulled Charles against the ropes, hooked his big left paw around the back of Charles's head to hold it in position, and whaled away with a vicious right uppercut to the Adam's apple. Charles never recovered...
...last year's Commencement game, the Elis rallied in the eighth to down the Crimson, 8 to 6. Walks and a home run by Guidotti were the winning combination for Yale