Word: eights
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Communist-line followers. Both sides were looking for trouble: some of the concertgoers, carefully organized and briefed by their Communist leaders, came equipped with baseball bats; veterans and their sympathizers ambushed departing cars, bombarded them with sticks and heavy stones. Twenty-five buses had every window broken, eight cars were overturned, 145 people were hurt. Westchester County authorities blamed "teen-agers," commended the 904 policemen for preventing "mass killings." But the police, for all their numbers, flopped dismally and some seemed hardly interested in preserving order. One cop, reporting a brush with a Robesonite carload, announced proudly: "We beat hell...
Greta Garbo, determined to be alone, fled from Rome to Ostia for a few days rest before starting work in Paris on her first film in eight years (Balzac's Duchesse de Langeais). When a cameraman caught her strolling the black sands without the protection of her usual droopy hat, she took to cover anyway...
...both sides of the Channel, newsmen mobilized enough equipment to report a medium-sized war: rocket signals, marine radios, walkie-talkies, telescopes, carrier pigeons, eight boats and three planes. But Shirley May's target date (Aug. 14) came & went. Reporter Bob Musel, ghosting her diary for N.E.A. and covering the story for United Press, blamed repeated postponements on training hitches and bad weather. Delicately, he skirted the main reason, which Editor & Publisher reported as "a delay due to a monthly occurrence peculiar to women...
...almost every city and town in the U.S., the big problem was finding room for the war babies. New York City expected its biggest enrollment in seven years; it had eight new school units to accommodate it, was building 20 more. Los Angeles had built 835 new classrooms for elementary pupils alone, then found that that was not nearly enough. Detroit had raised $55 million for new grade schools, but it knew that its troubles were just beginning. "This part is easy," said one school-board member. "Just wait till this crop hits the high schools...
...signal from the control room exploded a small charge and blew off the rocket's nose. Unstream-lined by separation, the parts tumbled over & over. As they fell toward the earth, observers saw silvery flashes of sunlight reflected from aluminum. Dust rose from the desert, and back from eight miles away came a muffled sound of an alcohol-oxygen explosion...