Word: sevenths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...throngs with his stirring and emotional oratory. "I have known the impact of Gandhi, Jinnah and Nehru," said one observer, "but the depth of feeling Mujib evoked in so many people and so effortlessly was something no other leader had ever done." Jailed for the first time as a seventh-grader when he agitated in favor of India's independence from Britain, Mujib spent more than ten years behind bars, joking, "Prison is my other home...
...group in Finley's operation that does end up losing is his front-office staff?the smallest in baseball, and probably the most overworked. In 15 years, Finley's autocratic rule has used up five scouting directors, six farm directors (last week the seventh, John Claiborne, quit in disgust), ten publicity managers and 16 broadcasters. He sends the staff scurrying with round-the-clock calls?there is even a telephone in the men's room (located a safe distance from the clubhouse)?and supervises everything from bat orders for the players to food in the press room. Frank Ciensczyk...
Slipping to Seventh. Marion's experience points up one major qualification to the rapid rise in U.S.-Soviet trade: mainly because of financing difficulties, it is still not growing as rapidly as Western European and Japanese exports to the U.S.S.R. Indeed, in the past year the U.S. has fallen from second rank (behind West Germany) among the Soviet Union's non-Communist suppliers to seventh. The ranking is unlikely to change, because the Soviets are buying from other countries even more eagerly than from the U.S. Moscow last year bought four artificial fertilizer plants from...
...What's your idea?" Again and again the Atlantic Richfield oil company asked that question in a six-month, $5.5 million advertising campaign that nagged Americans to send in suggestions for improving mass transportation. The company's own idea was plain enough. Top executives of Arco, the seventh largest U.S. oil company, were upset by public resentment of the big profits rolled up by the industry in the wake of the 1973-74 price increases. So they decided to do some image polishing by sponsoring a nationwide debate on alternatives to the family car. The response: an astonishing...
This is Italo Calvino's seventh novel and his third to be published in the United States, and it is a work at once beautifully expansive and delicately proportioned. Marco Polo's catalogue of cities comprises a collection of short, formulaic prose poems, interrupted at regular intervals by descriptions of the explorer's discourse with the emperor in his garden. The catalogue is itself carefully ordered, with the cities drawn in always-changing sequence from eleven categories: cities and memory, cities and desire, cities and signs, thin cities, trading cities, cities and eyes, cities and names, cities and the dead...