Word: eighths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Saturday, at his little-used office in the Eighth Army's rear headquarters, Ridgway prepared to relinquish his old command. "This is not goodbye in any sense of the word," he told correspondents, "because I am still very much a part of this team." Before his final departure for Tokyo, he turned reassuringly to his successor, Lieut. General James Van Fleet. "I won't get in your hair, Van," he said...
While their husbands were meeting at Eighth Army headquarters in Korea, Mrs. Frank Pace Jr., wife of the Secretary of the Army, joined Mrs. Matthew B. Ridgway in pouring tea for a benefit fashion show at the Army Medical Center in Washington...
...furlong conditioner five days before, the Colando colt seemed to be a cinch. But the mile-and-a-sixteenth Experimental was an entirely different matter. Starting in the outside post position, and carrying top weight of 126 Ibs., he never made it a race. Uncle Miltie finished eighth, five lengths (i.e., 4½ & a nose & a head) behind the winner, King Ranch's Sonic, which carried only a feathery 105 Ibs. The time...
...Clocker turned and waved to his wife. "Old horses never die," he whimpered, "they go to Suffolk Downs." The Clocker gave these tips: First Doit Easy; Fifth, Four Chances; Sixth, Algasir; Seventh, Blue Falcon; Eighth, Soma Lad; Ninth, Quatrefoil...
Third baseman Ray Maesaka hit 2 for 3 Saturday afternoon to spark the freshman baseball team to a 5 to 2 victory over Exeter at Soldiers Field. Maesaka scored twice and hit a triple in the eighth inning, the only extra base hit of the game...