Word: eighths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Prisoner Rule. General Dodd is a candid, friendly man who has admitted openly that he does not understand Communists. A 52-year-old, Indiana-born West Pointer, he is a former deputy chief of staff of James Van Fleet's Eighth Army. After Koje's most violent riot last February, he was sent to the island to take over command from Colonel Maurice Fitzgerald. He found a bad situation. U.S. personnel were reluctant to enter some of the fanatical Communist compounds. The Communists elected their own leaders and councils, ran their enclosures like self-contained Red fortresses, organized...
...only Eli victory. Bossart at six took the next match for the Crimson in two sets, and Gerry Murphy at seven defeated his opponent, 6-3, 4-6, 6-4. Bill Goodman, Steve Sonnabend, and Terry King all won in straight sets in the eighth, ninth, and tenth spots respectively...
...real facts finally began to filter through. Talk of piston superiority stopped abruptly when an F80 shot down the first MIG-15. The Eighth Fighter-Bomber Group put out of action 504 enemy tanks, 540 flak guns, 441 locomotives, 5,800 trucks in 22 months. Major General Emmett ("Rosie") O'Donnel's 22nd Bombardment Wing proved that a B-29 SAC unit could pack up, carry its own supplies 5,000 miles across an ocean, and be in action five days after receiving its orders to move. And it was obvious that SAC squadrons in the U.S. stood...
...policy of "ingathering" foreign Jews-the world's sick, homeless and unwanted -that was in principle irreproachable but in practice ruinous. Its population doubled in four years. In that four years, Israel had to import $800 million worth of goods while its exports paid for only one-eighth that amount...
Gratident after is eighth consecutive victory, the varsity tennis squad left Cambridge yesterday afternoon for West Point, where it will take on a fair Army team at 2 p.m. today...