Word: seventh
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Goods. In Concord, Calif., after burglars looted the safe in his restaurant six times, Joe Molino confronted the seventh burglar with an empty safe and a sign: "Please try some other place. We can't stand much more of this...
...mathematicians, TIME et al. couldn't pass a seventh-grade arithmetic test. "Over the past ten years M.I.T.'s gain: 365%. Thus $1,000 invested in M.I.T. shares ten years ago would be worth $3,650 today.." You get zero on that one. My twelve-year-old says to tell...
...like it!" Pressed for specifics, he allowed: "The parks looked as if they had been turned into a bedroom." Still an ambiguous witness, he served up some advice for all young folks: "The new generation is better acquainted with Jayne Mansfield's statistics than they are with the Seventh Commandment . . . Slow down! Sex is a great thing-so long as it is not misused." Then, after he sipped tea with Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip at Buckingham Palace, Sightseer Graham was at last pinned down by an insistent reporter just as he was boarding a plane for Moscow...
...five more rounds the tension made an ordinary TV isolation booth seem like a rest cure. Closing his eyes and mopping his face, Bobby Crossley delivered terricolous amid wild applause. Seventh Grader Joel Montgomery coolly rapped out pastiche, prolegomenous, successfully spelled susurrus when Bobby shakily tiubbed it. Then Joel missed vinaigrous, and so did Bobby, leaving the game at deuce. In Round 30, Joel gracefully pronounced gracilescent and spelled it correctly; it was Bobby's chance to hold the tie. As he stood under the tall microphone, pondering fanfaronade, Bobby's long trousers seemed to sag. Out came...
...John Wurdack, the New York Botanical Garden's Expedition No. 21 was at the headwaters of the Orinoco. Seeking new or rare plants, its professional botanists were especially alert for any with medicinal promise. On five continents, 750 physicians and other medical people at 170 Seventh-day Adventist hospitals and clinics run by California's College of Medical Evangelists were collecting plants, getting patients to bring in samples of folk remedies, sometimes peering over the shoulders of witch doctors to see what went into their brews...