Word: eighths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This week he would continue to rest in bed. If the weather permits, he will occasionally be pushed in his hospital bed out on the porches at each end of the hospital's eighth floor. In his conferences with Secretary Dulles and others, he will be "allowed to express his opinions," said Dr. White; letters he signs could well represent his own views. In the event of a real crisis requiring presidential decision, he would be fully able to act in reaching...
...strains of Star Dust, played by the Melachrino Strings, wafted from the eighth-floor tower room at Denver's Fitzsimons Army Hospital. An idle glassene oxygen tent was placed outside the door m the flower-banked corridor. Inside the room, the world's most important hospital patient rested comfortably and listened to the music. A week after his heart attack President Eisenhower was making steady progress toward recovery...
...Frenchmen, a region enriched by billions in French investments and subsidies. Its land and its 8,000,000 Moslem natives, the French insist, have been integrated into the French nation on a basis of equality. But the statistics (e.g., average income of an Algerian Moslem family is about one-eighth that of a mainland French family), as well as the vast majority of Algerian natives, disagree. In recent months the disagreement has taken the form of violent nationalist resistance and bloody French reprisals...
...Fifth Game rang to the sound of Dodger bats. In the second inning little Sandy Amoros homered with one on; Snider hit homers in the third and fifth-his eighth and ninth in series play. Still Casey Stengel stuck with his starting pitcher. Bob Grim. In the seventh, the Yanks began to rough up Dodger Rookie Roger Craig; Pinch Hitter Bob Cerv reached him for a home run and Dodger Manager Alston brought in Clem Labine. Casey countered with Bob Turley and Berra contributed a home run. It was not enough. The Dodgers scored once more in the eighth...
...hospital, Ike stepped from his car, sat in a waiting wheelchair, and was taken immediately to the two-room presidential suite on the eighth floor of the hospital's tower. On the way up he politely inquired after the health of the elevator operator, Charles Adams. Ike went right to bed, and was placed under an oxygen tent. The green-and-cream-colored suite is reserved for very important patients and furnished in the style of a hotel room, with upholstered chairs, a carpet on the floor, a desk and several lamps...