Word: eighths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...weekly, until it was banned; he helped found the magazine Europa, but it was suppressed before its first issue reached the newsstands. Party-line critics railed that Hlasko was a "cynic and demoralizer," but a poll of Polish youth named him their favorite writer. Last year his novel, The Eighth Day of the Week, which dealt with the homelessness of a pair of Warsaw lovers, won Poland's highest literary award, though the Polish-West German movie made from the book was banned in his homeland...
MacLeish spoke on "Poetry and Journalism" at the eighth of the University's Gideon Seymour lectures, a series named for a late Minneapolis newspaper editor...
...Eighth Wonder...
...segregated basis. Almond ignored the petition; it was plainly an effort to make him directly responsible for defying court orders. ¶In Little Rock deputy U.S. marshals fanned through the city to serve school officials and teachers with copies of a restraining order issued by two judges of the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals against a pet Orval Faubus plan: turning the schools over to a private school corporation for segregated operation. Unfazed, Governor Faubus, who had always pretended that he sought only an integration delay to let things quiet down, now told a Little Rock reporter: "I will never...
...winner of 246 games in a 14-year major-league career, might have been beaten in the opening game if the Yankees had not conspired so efficiently to beat themselves. Hank Bauer led off the first inning with a single, got ignominiously picked off base moments later. In the eighth inning, the same Bauer backed up for a routine line drive, overjumped it to make a double of a sure putout. With this help, Spahn took heart, got stronger and stronger (he retired 14 batters in a row), and the Braves won 4-3 in ten innings...