Word: eighth
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...holed up in a small theater on the Fort Monmouth Army base, cramming for a 46-city tour that starts Aug. 7. During a break backstage, the band members were playing their consummate blue-collar roles. Guitarist "Little" Steven Van Zandt says he has to move out of his Eighth Avenue apartment in Manhattan after 20 years. "The place is fallin' apart." Drummer Max Weinberg suggests Steve check out a place in the legendary Upper West Side apartment building the Dakota; Van Zandt looks as if he has just been told to eat his pizza with a knife and fork...
...dominating the mountain stages, he proved that the Tour hasn't changed, that he is still the master of this race. "After the first two mountain stages people realized Lance was as good as ever," said Team Rabobank's Levi Leipheimer, an American who finished eighth in his first Tour...
...Saturday, the Yankees began the top of the eighth inning leading 6-3 with closer Mariano Rivera on the mound. The half-inning ended with the Yankees trailing 8-6, Rivera in the clubhouse with a sore shoulder and Yankee fans’ confidence shattered...
Anna Nicole Smith is force-feeding me olives stuffed with jalapenos and garlic as we lie on her giant pink-satin bed watching Jerry Springer. "Why do those women get up and take off all their clothes?" she asks. After the eighth olive, my mouth on fire, she offers me a swig from her strawberry-yogurt chaser. "I've been in my jammies all day," she drawls in a Texas accent. Next we share a bowl of sliced pickles in lemon juice. She is not pregnant...
...massive government report. It shows that 82% of kids today are in very good or excellent health. Infant mortality has dropped by nearly half from two decades ago to 6.9 deaths for every 1,000 births. And all those antismoking messages may have paid off too. Kids in eighth grade, for instance, are one-quarter less likely to smoke today than a year ago. Another positive note: the percentage of teens 15 to 17 who give birth is 2.7, an all-time low. There's room for improvement, of course. African-American babies, for example, are still 2.5 times...