Word: seventh
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...This week brought managerial news from the National League too: a nine-game losing streak catapulted Manager Bob Coleman of the seventh-place Boston Braves out of office, gave Coach Del Bissonette his chance...
Until last month, when all Army forces (except the Washington-directed strategic bombers) were turned over to MacArthur and all the Navy to Nimitz, the mixed forces on each island were under a theater commander-e.g., Nimitz had the Seventh Air Force and several infantry divisions, MacArthur the Seventh Fleet and some Marine flyers...
Farther north, six Chinese columns squeezed Kweilin's defenders "like a turtle in a jar." When Kweilin fell, the Chinese would have recovered the seventh. U.S. air base since the Japanese turned north...
...first big city captured in World War II had been almost forgotten. But last week the U.S. Seventh Air Force brought Shanghai back into the headlines with a sudden crash...
...five regular readers felt the lack enough to go to the printing plants, brave shouting picket lines and buy copies. Some newspapers printed box scores showing the city's growing thirst for news; the Daily News (normal weekday circ. 2,000,000) sold 135,000 copies on the seventh day of the strike, 500,000 a week later...