Word: eighths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...northeast. The DC-7B at first spiraled lazily, then, its dive steepening, went into a twisting spin, finally plunged with a thunderous roar onto the lawn of the Pacoima Congregational Church, just a block from the Junior High School. There on the athletic fields, 220 seventh-and eighth-grade boys were moving back into the gymnasium...
Since Pancho has his eye on the present, he is out to win every set he can in his eighth year as a pro. Now an oldtimer at 28, Gonzales is too much of a businessman and too good at his business to take his occasional beatings lightly. He fights for every point. (At Wellington last week, when a close line call went against him, he turned to the stands and asked: "Is there an eye doctor about?") Victories on the tour mean cash-as Pancho has learned the hard way. He signed for $80,000 to play against Kramer...
...Omaha. Texas-born Archie Old, like Curt LeMay, is no West Pointer, was an auto dealer with a reserve commission in the Air Corps until he was called to active duty in September 1940. Squarejawed, blue-eyed, thoroughly able, he rose with phenomenal speed in wartime to command the Eighth Air Force's 96th Bomb Group at a ripe 36, led the first shuttle-bomb raid (from England to Russia and back), the famed Schweinfurt raids, flew 43 combat missions, became LeMay's director of operations in 1953, is now commander of SAC's Fifteenth Air Force...
...fastest-expanding major market in the world. (Since 1950, annual imports of the Six have increased from $11 billion to $19 billion.) The British were also aware that if they stayed out of the Common Market, the tariff wall thrown up by the Six (who now buy one-eighth of Britain's exports) might well exclude many British goods, and that, under these circumstances, commercial and eventually political domination of Western Europe would fall into the hands of Germany...
...only teaches illiterates but laces his instruction with comments on the folly of crime. ¶A young man once on the FBI's most-wanted list, and described as vicious, depraved and hopeless, has at last settled down and is one of the most satisfactory students in the eighth grade...