Word: seventh
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Weld and Bowditch, seeded first in the doubles competition, are the only varsity players among the top eight singles seeds. Weld is fourth, behind Yale's defending champion Don Dell, Wesleyan's Alan Roberts, and Amherst's Tom Richardson. Bowditch is ranked seventh, and Fred Vinton is placed among the second eight. Bill Wood, the varsity's fourth entrant, is unseeded...
Robbins skillfully guided his boat home in front, and Saltonstall took fourth. The M.I.T. squad cracked completely, with a seventh and a ninth, and B.U. was unable to threaten seriously...
...Seventh Army in West Germany, effective instrument of close-in engagement, works at the diverse, contradictory problems of cold-war alertness in the nuclear age. The Seventh has to be ready, perhaps for years to come, for instant attack from the nuclear-armed U.S.S.R. land and air forces poised across the border. It offers enemy nuclear missiles no good targets, encamps no unit bigger than a battalion in a single area. Senior officers roam distant outposts to make unannounced tests of how fast and accurately the outposts could report a Russian tank attack to Army headquarters...
...manpower: 50% strength in 30 minutes, 35% more in two hours, no more than 15% on leave at once. Yet in their drills the battle-ready battalions never roll all the way to their carefully prepared positions. Reason: in the age of tactical missiles, battle positions are secret; the Seventh wants no fixed Russian missiles zeroed in on battle targets...
Working on the grim, untried tactics of nuclear battle, the Seventh has adopted the "shield and spear" principle. Its five-division conventional weaponry would be a shield to stop the first assault, force the Russians to concentrate in attack forces big enough to be devastated by the Seventh's nuclear "spear." The spear is made up of half a dozen Corporal ballistic-missile battalions (100-mile range), Honest Johns, Redstones, 280-mm. cannon, 8-in. howitzers-together capable of delivering at least 100 atomic warheads simultaneously...