Word: eighths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...They ain't payin' us 'til after." The little boy looked over towards the barber shop. "Any left?" "Dunno. Wyn'cha go look?" The little boy started to brush through the crowd, then stopped and looked at the bigger boy. "You from 'round here?" "Nah," said the bigger boy. "Eighth street." "Why you here?" "I'm carryin' a sign." "Ya figger you'll get paid?" "Better," said the bigger boy, and he held the sign a little higher and faced up towards the platform...
...Futurity, in the world-record-equaling time of1 min. 14 2/5 sec. for 6½ furlongs; on the Widener Course straightaway at Belmont. Odds-on choice at 1 to 3, the dark grey colt (by Polynesian, out of Geisha) brushed his opposition aside in the stretch to win his eighth straight race...
...from incendiary blondes and comic stooges to roaring gunfights and simple-Simon detection. Last week the TV Dragnet came back to the air after a summer vacation in the first of a new series of 47 filmed episodes. The suspenseful story of a man about to jump from an eighth-floor ledge, it was well acted, filmed and directed and undoubtedly Dragnet's best show to date...
...General James A. Van Fleet reported last week that his Eighth Army was in top form and that it could stop and throw back any Communist offensive. His language was notably defensive. He did not say that his army could-or would-mount a major offensive of its own. In the field, the ground fighting was sharper than usual, but there was no sign of a major onslaught by either side. Mark Clark's air campaign, against a handful of North Korean targets, hammered ahead...
...this year 8 by 10 inch, green-blue registration cards are included with all other registration paraphernalia. The card calls the Center "the eighth unit in the House system" and states that membership offers students "educational, social, and athletic facilities and opportunities similar to those provided in the seven resident Houses...