Word: eights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sympathizers, members of Locals 578 and 584, Textile Workers Union of America, jammed Henderson's National Guard armory, raised the rafters with well-tuned pentecostal voices and stood reverently as Mrs. Nannie Hughes, a millworker for 45 years, besought the Almighty. "Dearest Lord," implored Grandmother Hughes in an eight-minute prayer, "look especially into the heart of one so hard and bitter...
Busy, ancient (78) Pope John XXIII acted again last week to strengthen the Curia-administrative headquarters of the Roman Catholic Church-which has suffered in recent years from understaffing and old age. For Dec. 14 the Pope called a consistory (his second) at which eight new cardinals will be created, raising the membership of the Sacred College to 79, the largest in history...
Boulris caught nine passes for 70 yards and one touchdown. Repsher with 149 yards from eight catches also has a touchdown to his credit in the pass-receiving department. Cullen has received seven passes, gaining 155 yards, with Boyda also catching seven, for a total of 91 yards...
...Eight members of the College and Law-Graduate Young Democratic Clubs have been instrumental in the formation of a national Young Democratic Student Federation, according to Minot W. Tripp '61, an officer of the College group...
...then worked as an all-round apprentice for the Williamsport Gazette and Bulletin, leaving two years later as city hall and courthouse reporter. In September, 1949, he took the job as education writer for the Hartford Times, and, after a year and a half, moved to the copy desk. Eight months later, "I made a success of myself and became a sports writer...