Word: seventh
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...London reported that another shipload of Communist arms-the seventh since January-recently arrived at the Yemen port of Salif, where, under the telescopes of watchers on the British Kamaran Islands in the Red Sea, Egyptian officers directed the unloading of T-34 tanks, piston-engine trainer planes, antiaircraft guns, military vehicles and small arms. The British, already in trouble fighting the Imam of Oman at the eastern end of the Arabian peninsula, now face the possibility of difficulty from the Imam of Yemen on their Aden borders. In supplying arms to the Imam of Yemen, the Russians counted...
...hoped to put off its increase, the seventh since April 1955 (when the rate was 1½%) until fall to make it easier for the Treasury to refinance the $8.1 billion debt coming due in September and October. But the increase in prime rates, plus the fact that borrowings from the Federal Reserve system had soared from $553 million to $1 billion in one week forced the Fed's hand. This seemed solid evidence to the Federal Reserve Board that the real danger is still inflation-and the boom still has plenty of steam...
...Seventh Grade: history and geography of Texas, replacing a course on the geography of Europe and Asia...
...High Seventh Grade: history and geography of Texas...
...centipede, sir ... Ah, that's massive, sir. 'Tis you that has the healing hand." The warder turns, and Dunlavin sneaks a great swig from the alcohol bottle. "That's it, sir, thorough does it ... May God reward you, sir, you must be the seventh son of the seventh son of one of the Lees from Limerick on your mother's side maybe. [Drinks again.') Ah, that's the cure for the cold of the wind and the world's neglectment...