Word: seventh
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mountains south to the Niger and from Africa's Atlantic Coast east to the Red Sea. But even the French Community's half of the Sahara is awesome in size (1,600,000 sq. mi. v. 213,000 for France) and bewildering in its diversity. Barely a seventh of it is the movie desert of The Sheik-the vast expanses of sand wind-blown into golden dunes. The rest is mostly rock: gravelly plains, dry river beds, lunar landscapes whose peaks soar to 11,000 feet above sea level and depressions of 50 to 100 feet below...
...roostertail of spray soaring 50 ft. into the air, Stead seemed headed for certain victory when he spun off the course on the seventh lap. Stead wrestled Maverick back into the race, but could finish only fourth as Muncey brought Miss Thriftway home in front. But Stead was saved by the movie camera. Films of the start showed that Miss Spokane, which finished third, had crossed the line ahead of the gun. With Miss Spokane disqualified, Stead and Maverick took over third place, tied Muncey in total points, snatched the Gold Cup by a fractional advantage in average speed...
...Ussery early learned the value of a buck. Says he: "I always wanted to hoe cotton-those guys got $3 a day. But I wasn't big enough." So Ussery turned instead to picking spinach (10? for every 20 Ibs.). By seventh grade, he knew where easier money lay: "I couldn't ride and go to school too. I quit school...
...seventh of all the world's people suffer from trachoma. No killer, but the cause of maddening itching and burning in the eyes, it impairs vision, often leads to blindness. Now, after 50 years of frustrating efforts to find incontrovertible proof that the disease is caused by a virus, Britain's Medical Research Council reports that researchers have closed the circle of evidence. It was a blind man who helped them to see the proof they needed...
...could be enticed along. Until this year, the circuses were always staged behind the Iron Curtain, with plenty of Red police to keep things moving by the numbers, and press censorship to blank out any slipups. But last week, when the pink pipes of Pan sounded for the Seventh Youth Festival in neutral Vienna's vast Prater fairgrounds, there was trouble, trouble everywhere...