Word: seventh
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...French point with pride to their material achievements in Morocco. Infant mortality rates have dropped from 32 to 19 per 1,000 since 1930; Morocco's population has tripled since 1912. The colons own only one-seventh of the land, but it is by far the best; they raise 30% of Morocco's farm products but, unlike the Moroccans, get a. 20% rebate on their property taxes. Morocco's fine French roads run past colon farms, its dams are sited with an eye to watering those lands...
...Chicago, 6-1. But the second-place White Sox bounced back, 3-2, thanks to Third Baseman Bob Kennedy's first inning, three-run homer. The split held the Yankee's lead to half a game. Poor pitching cost the Cleveland Indians a double-header with the seventh-place Senators (8-2, 13-4), dropped them from a first-place tie to No. 3, one game out. The Boston Red Sox kept coming, powered by Homer-hitters Grady Hatton, Ted Williams, and Eddie Joost; they knocked off the hapless Athletics, 14-2, wound up only 3½ games...
...graduated percentage of actors' minimum wages for the second through the sixth reruns of the original film. The Guild renounced rights to payments for more than six reruns on the sound assumption that not even long-suffering U.S. viewers will sit still and watch a seventh rerun of any filmed TV show...
...placed their hopes in hard-hitting Ted Williams. When he broke off a legal skirmish with his wife and returned to baseball, Ted found the Sox in seventh place; at week's end they were in fourth, only 3½ games off the pace. Though Ted's big bat was a factor in the resurgence of the Red Sox, most of the credit goes to their little (5 ft. 6 in., 150 lbs.) shortstop, Billy Klaus. A veteran castoff from the Indians, Cubs, Braves and Giants, Billy, at 26, has been batting back and forth between the minors...
Napoleon & Me. The sixth river was the Liffey, in Dublin. There Johnston was married during a brief furlough. Soon he was back at the front, bridging the seventh river, the Rhine, and pushing on into Germany. With the hard-driving U.S. tankmen he felt at home. But he also felt sorry for the Germans, until one day when he came upon the Buchenwald death camp and choked as he recorded the story...