Word: eighting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Previously Arts And Letters had won--some say stolen--the Belmont Stakes. The odds against him were eight to five. The policemen that day were Majestic Prince, Prime Fool, Distray, Dike, and Rooney's Shield. A medieval lot. The best of this assortment was found wanting by five and a half lengths when the little terror romped across the finish...
After delivering her complaint to the island's parliament, the Dame of Sark, who is responsible only to Queen Elizabeth II, announced that she planned to surrender the sovereignty of her 3-mile-long-by-H-mile-wide island to neighboring Guernsey, eight miles farther out in the English Channel. Her 575 subjects were aghast. "The Dame has put us in a small boat and pushed us down the river," groused Philip Perree, a hotelkeeper. "We have no wish to be ruled by the bureaucrats of Guernsey...
...eight parked cars, including the U.S. Army attache's, were damaged...
Ironically, Crowhurst's despondency over his apparent failure was less justified than he thought. Unknown to him, eight of the nine other competitors in the race had dropped out before Crowhurst vanished-all of them because of the same kind of mishaps and small illnesses that he himself suffered...
...somewhat preposterous hobo rode the middle class rails. But as a student at Columbia in the middle '40s, he found that he could no longer groove along those rails. After precocious turns at turning on, dropping out, shipping out and even bugging out (into a mental asylum for eight months), Ginsberg drifted to San Francisco's North Beach in 1953. There he abandoned all vestigial attempts to play it straight. Instead, he decided to "cultivate my perceptions, cultivate the visionary thing in me. And to keep living with someone-maybe even a man -and explore relationships that...