Word: seventh
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...February 1943 he arrived in North Africa. There he commanded the II Corps in the Seventh Army of George Patton. In that brutal and bloody campaign, U.S. troops learned how vastly different real war was from Tennessee maneuvers. Then the flamboyant George Patton overshadowed Bradley, but it was the quiet, bespectacled infantryman in the old trench coat who made the jittery divisions into a fighting machine. George Marshall wired him: "All our confidence in you has been justified...
...last week, Ecuador's excitable Francisco ("Pancho") Segura was all but blown off the slippery court at Manhattan's Seventh Regiment Armory. Then Pancho, who feels very badly when sports writers call him "the best Grade B player in tennis," steadied down. With his two-handed drive, he whipped ferociously at every ball he could lay his racket on, cheered himself after good shots with a "Bravo, Pancho." In the next three sets, he trounced onetime U.S. Singles Champion Don McNeill (still rusty from Navy duty), became the first South American to win the U.S. Indoor Singles...
...good chess player makes the smallest move count. Last week Pope Pius XII chose the seventh anniversary of his coronation to throw a well-timed spotlight on an important new red hat. The hat belongs to soft-voiced, fierce-bearded Gregory Peter XV Agagianian (pronounced ah-gah-jahn-yan), Patriarch-Catholicos of Cilicia of the Armenians, who stayed over in Rome at the Pope's request to celebrate Solemn Pontifical Mass in the Sistine Chapel...
...never had before, nosed out the dapple-grey favorite, First Fiddle, in a four-horse photo finish. To the owner, a Hollywood scenario writer, went a gold cup, a $101,220 purse, and a cool handshake from her boss, Louis B. Mayer, whose entry (Be Faithful) finished seventh...
...crews lined up for the first day's race in the order they finished the previous year (Jesus has been "Head of the River" for nine of the past twelve years). So Bull College was put near the tail end, in 59th place out of 60 crews (Trinity Seventh was 60th). When Corpus' Third, King's Third, and Saint Catharine's Fourth, the other tail-enders, got snarled in each other's oars, the coaches began firing pistol shots and Connie began to scream. Her G.I.s, who took her shrieks for exhortations, plowed ahead...