Word: sevenths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...team level, NYU won the three-weapon title by a comfortable margin with 81 points. Princeton, which showed surprisingly well in the Easterns, finished second with 70 points and Columbia followed with 62. Harvard tied Cornell for seventh place with 54 points...
Neville concluded a third consecutive day of scoring, as he totaled 35 points in three individual races in two second and one seventh place finishes. Harvard, in fact, averaged a high 30 points per man, as eight overworked swimmers accounted for all of the Crimson's 240-point third-place total...
West Germany's Bundeswehr, descendant of the once mighty Wehrmacht, is filled with slovenly, long-haired draftees on 15-month hitches. As for the U.S. Seventh Army, it has been more conspicuous during the past two years for its racial battles in Frankfurt than its prowess in maneuvers. Britain's volunteer Army of the Rhine, on the other hand, is the best field force in Western Europe. But with only 50,000 men it is too small to defend Germany's vast northern plain...
...final pressure came from other unions, which said that their 100,000 members would shut down Philadelphia for a "day of conscience" if the strike was not settled by last Wednesday. At that, Usery closeted himself and the negotiators in a room on the seventh floor of the Penn Square Building. Fifty-two hours later, the room was a shambles of sandwich wrappers and coffee cups -and there was a settlement. The terms: $99.5 million over four years. Mayor Rizzo, who had promised not to increase taxes, said he would raise the money through "a conglomerate of new taxes that...
...long ago, young hot-shots in the garment industry would swagger to the top with order pads in one hand and samples of the latest fashions in the other. But nowadays life along Manhattan's Seventh Avenue, main drag of the U.S. dressmaking industry, is a bit more subdued. Three years after the ill-starred "midi" provoked a customer rebellion that unstitched profits in firm after firm, many women are still shying away from dresses and skirts of any sort, and playing it safe fashionwise by choosing pantsuits. Result: a New York dressmaking disaster...