Word: eights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Republican Women's Federation, needled him with a suggestion: "You've always been first man, but now you should be second man." Flushing, Rocky shot back: "But you don't know me." When a debate on the merits of being Nixon's Vice President for eight years persisted, Rockefeller turned on his tormentors and snapped: "Don't go selecting a President who's got to be propped up." Then he followed up with a challenge: "You'll know before the convention who's going...
From the cool heights of Baguio to steamy Zamboanga last week, 7,000,000 Filipinos went to the polls to elect eight senators and close to 13,000 city and provincial officials. At his home in Bohol, chess-playing President Carlos Garcia alternated between rejoicing over the birth of his first grandchild and fretting over the electoral prospects. Though neither his own office nor his Nacionalista Party's control of the 24-man Philippine Senate was at stake, Garcia knew that the off-year vote would be a test of his chances for re-election...
Statistics totals after eight games rate the varsity football team comfortably ahead of its opponents in every department except passing. Crimson rushing has been 150 per cent as successful as the other teams'. The totals: H OPP. 125 First Downs 105 1743 Yards Rushing 1032 519 Yards Passing 822 98 Passes Attempted 151 39 Passes Completed 63 9 Had Intercepted 9 42 Punts 42 37.6 Punting Average 34.2 10 Fumbles Lost...
...then, on the cold, wet night of December eleventh, 1958--just eight short months after John Ciardi had despaired of a major professional production for years to come--on the stage of the ANTA Theatre, at the corner of 52nd Street and Broadway, Archibald MacLeish's "play in verse" received its New York City premiere. The production had enlisted a somewhat disparate but unquestionably distinguished group of the biggest talents in the business: Elia Kazan, Boris Aronson, Raymond Massey, Christopher Plummer, Pat Hingle. Everyone involved, in Newsweek's candid prose, was taking "a calculated risk; the drama had arrived...
...Committee, formed by President Jordan last November, has also made a study of the possibility of mixed tutorial. Most significant among its findings, according to Dean Elliott, was "an over-whelming sentiment in favor of mixed tutorial" among the head tutors of the eight departments having the greatest number of Radcliffe concentrators...