Word: eighths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...would intervene in Korea. The Chinese could get no more than 50,000 to 60,000 troops across the Yalu, MacArthur reported, and if those troops moved on to Pyongyang, they would be slaughtered.* ¶MacArthur expected victory over the North Koreans by Thanksgiving and planned to have the Eighth Army back in Japan by Christmas. He said that he would be able to release the seasoned 2nd Division for transfer to Europe by January. ¶The President and the general came to an understanding on Formosa, the issue which had caused all the fuss. The President explained that...
...went well until the beginning of the eighth inning, when the public-address system blared out the routine request for spectators to remain seated until the President had departed. The crowd's disconcerting response: a long and rolling boo. Harry Truman stared straight ahead. It was the first time in his six years of presiding at opening games that he had ever been booed; in fact it was the first time a President had been so booed since Herbert Hoover went to the ball game...
...Then the Eighth Army announced that the Reds were "exploiting" a breakthrough south of Kumhwa on the central front. A Chinese division, supported by cavalry, achieved this penetration in the face of intense artillery fire...
...manage that, however, the Eighth Army would have to prevent major Red breakthroughs. It had to stop the enemy or else move south in front of him. The Red breakthrough at Kumhwa, after only three days of fighting, indicated that Van Fleet might be forced to use his reserve for defense rather than for later attack...
Given the proposition that there is no standout horse in next week's Kentucky Derby, 44,230 people went looking for a likely bet in the Wood Memorial at Jamaica last week. They came away shaking their heads after UNCLE MILTIE, the favorite, finished eighth...