Word: seventh
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lineup against Princeton was shuffled in a consistent fashion so that almost everyone worked with at least two different combinations. This system gave the team enough resting time to keep up a fast pace throughout the game and even score a seventh goal as the final buzzer sounded...
...momentousness of the news could be judged by the headlines it displaced. Until the bulletin from Moscow, the big news everywhere was of the U.S. Seventh Fleet steaming to within gun range of Communist China to evacuate, come war or high water, Chiang's Nationalists from the Tachen Islands. The British Commonwealth prime ministers assembled in London could talk of nothing else; Britain's Laborites cried that it surely meant war and demanded that Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden beg Premier Chou En-lai for peace. That kind of fear of imminent war in the Formosa Strait (an impression...
Never in history had such an evacuation taken place with such a show of overwhelming power. Flung wide across the sullen East China Sea was the mighty U.S. Seventh Fleet. Cruisers and destroyers prowled to and fro within range of Communist shore batteries. From below the horizon, five of the U.S.'s mightiest carriers flung an umbrella of jet fighters above the two scruffy little islands. Closer in. the sea was littered with transports and scurrying landing craft in the disheveled bustle of a major amphibious operation...
...first day, Navy pilots reported sighting a few silver-wing flashes over the mainland and a few scattered junks. Peking radio blustered about "provocation" and "danger of starting a major war." But in the face of the Seventh Fleet's might, Peking subsided into disconnected and embarrassed mutterings. By Monday night all sign of Communist activity had vanished. The muzzle covers stayed...
Higher policy, however, dictated the removal of the air and naval officers. In the succeeding months, U.S.-Soviet relations continued to deteriorate, and reached a nadir when American communists came to Moscow for the Seventh Congress of the Communist International in August, 1935--a patent violation of the agreement of recognition signed less than two years earlier. Ambassador Bullitt was crushed by what he considered a personal defeat as well as a slap in the face to his country. Though he advocated significant reductions in the staff of the Moscow embassy, he once again emphasized the importance of close relations...