Word: tenths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Chairmen of the Phillips Brooks House tenth annual Fall Blood Drive hope to top last fall's total of 992 donated pints. The current drive is in full swing, with solicitors seeking pledges in the House dining rooms...
Despite eight years of Red rule, there remain millions of Chinese, including the uncounted inside China itself, who maintain a stubborn faith that China will again be free. Each year on "Double Tenth" (the tenth day of the tenth month) they renew that faith in celebrating the anniversary of the overthrow of the Manchu dynasty and the founding of the Chinese Republic by Dr. Sun Yatsen. Last week, on a bright, breezy day, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek watched his U.S.-equipped Nationalist army roll by in an impressive display of motorized armor. Overhead Chinese and U.S. jets left vapor trails...
Across Southeast Asia, thousands of overseas Chinese displayed new loyalty to the red, white and blue banner of the republic. In refugee-swamped Macao, they staged the biggest demonstration since the Reds seized China. In sensitive Hong Kong, far more Chinese showed Nationalist colors on Double Tenth than had displayed the Red flag on the Oct. 1 anniversary of the Communist victory. In neutralist Cambodia, more Chinese shut their shops on the Nationalists' holiday than on the Communists'. Editorialized the New York Times hopefully: "The concept of freedom cannot be killed by Communist maneuver. The new and great...
While Levittown, Long Island, suburbia's assembly-line Eden, celebrated its tenth birthday with fireworks, a 75-float parade, a midget football game and a performance of John Millington Synge's Riders to the Sea, William Levitt, the ringtailed realtor who started it all, celebrated in his own way. For $1,750,000 he bought Belair, the 2,226-acre Maryland estate of the late William Woodward Jr. Purpose: more diapers and down payments in a new, 5,000-castle Levittown...
Other Crimson finishers who contributed solid performances were French Anderson, seventh, Will Julian, ninth, and Dave Donaldson, tenth. Julian's finish was his highest so far this year...