Word: seventh
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...times with an unusual diplomatic consistency. His first battleground: the Far East. His first decision: the scores of struggles under way along Red China's borders and from Korea to Malaya should be rated and met as one. His first move: the U.S. ordered the Seventh Fleet, then under orders by President Truman to neutralize the Formosa Strait, to desist from protecting Red China against any Nationalist China attack. At once his critics derided President Eisenhower for "unleashing Chiang," but Dulles had the argument of later events on his side. Red China shifted thousands of troops from the North...
...place, Buick skidded steadily to 263,890 sales and fifth place last year. Trying desperately to arrest this slump, Buick Boss Edward Tillottson Ragsdale, 61, radically remodeled the 1959 Buick. But in this year's first quarter, when all other General Motors models rode up, Buick sunk to seventh place as sales slipped another 11%, and its market share dipped from...
...score had been deadlocked 3 to 3 since the seventh, thanks largely to By Johnson's strong pitching, but in the ninth the game slipped through the hands of the Crimson infield without Army even needing...
Occasionally the curve would hang, and it was then that Moe Balboni and Mouse Kasarjian belted the home runs which accounted for the two Crimson scores. Balboni's round tripper came in the bottom of the seventh, and was a prodigious smash which carried over 350 feet down the left field line
Other private schools, which have a tradition of admissions at the eighth or seventh grade level, find many of the same problems, slightly altered, that Harvard does. The record of a child who has reached the eighth grade is an uncertain thing at best. A boy who starts prep school this early and does not do well scholastically will be outdistanced further and further as outstanding "new boys" come in to his school...