Word: seventh
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the foregoing matters are attended to, there will be left a very serviceable plot gimmick, involving a playboy who has just shot his seventh wife "in the fleshy part of the thigh." His defense is that having drunk two bottles of Scotch whiskey in twelve hours, he was not aware of what he was doing. When the prosecution adduces medical testimony to the effect that anybody with two-fifths of a gallon tucked in would be incapable of doing anything, a lad just out of Harvard Law is selected to save the situation by ingesting fifty-odd jiggers...
...Nationalist China could not assure the supply of beleaguered Quemoy without massive ae rial bombardment of Red artillery positions on the Chinese mainland. The other was that, for all their bluster, the Chinese Communists could not hope to capture Quemoy by direct assault in the teeth of the U.S. Seventh Fleet...
...propaganda purposes, the rulers of the Communist world chose to overlook the reality of this standoff. Each time units of the Seventh Fleet ventured within Red China's self-proclaimed twelve-mile limit (TIME, Sept. 15), Peking issued a "serious warning." (By week's end Red China's Foreign Ministry was up to "the fifth serious warning.") In a wave of synthetic fury unmatched since Korean war days, millions of Chinese-205 million by Peking's count-docilely turned out to demonstrate against "U.S. armed provocations." Describing U.S. military bases abroad as "a noose around...
Russia's Nikita Khrushchev fired off a tough-talking note to Dwight Eisenhower. He derided the Seventh Fleet ("In the age of nuclear and rocket weapons . . . these once formidable warships are fit for nothing but courtesy visits and gun salutes . . ."-), and warned: "An attack on the People's Republic of China ... is an attack on the Soviet Union." Ominous as this sounded, it did not escape the attention of the world's statesmen-presumably including Mao-that Khrushchev had chosen to make his gesture of solidarity with Red China only after Washington and Peking had both indicated...
...along East Pakistan's ill-marked borders, and once again Pakistan's Moslem Leaguers whooped it up for holy war. Customarily, any politician who talks on India in conciliatory tones risks political suicide. But Feroz Khan Noon, the tall, Oxford-educated aristocrat who became Pakistan's seventh Prime Minister last winter, decided that such irresponsible fire-breathing had gone on too long. Bluntly warning that "U.S. military aid will stop if Pakistan talks in terms of war," Noon challenged the zealots: "If you think you can wage a war with India standing on your own feet...