Word: sevenths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...life expectancy of American men climbed from 63.6 years to 68.2; female life expectancy from 67.9 years to 75.9. The book does not include 1975 figures, which are 68.7 and 76.5 years for males and females, respectively. Internationally, Social Indicators ranked the U.S. a low 17th for males and seventh for females. The infant mortality rate dropped from 24.7 per 1,000 live births in 1965 to 16.7 per 1,000 in 1974, but the affluent country still ranked a rather poor 15th worldwide...
Evans put the icemen ahead to stay at 6:03 with his seventh goal of the campaign. With George leading a three on one break, the freshman backhanded the puck in for good after two stubborn rebounds off shots by Hughes and linemate Randy Millen...
...unsung heroes teamed up on this one again, as Dunderdale led Andrews in after the face off, and the latter let fly a wrister from the left circle that sublet the lower right corner for Harvard's seventh goal...
...ironies of the Middle East that Menachem Begin, 64, should emerge as Sadat's partner in the new quest for peace. Few would have dared predict this role for Begin last spring, when he became Israel's seventh Premier after his unexpected victory in a national election. His long-established image as an intransigent, superhawkish ultra-Zionist sent waves of concern, and even fear, throughout much of the world. The Arab press, led by Cairo, bitterly denounced him as a dangerous annexationist dreaming of a Greater Israel. Even Jimmy Carter hinted that he was concerned that Begin...
Nevertheless, the process of re-education could not begin immediately after the Revolution. First the Cubans had to dismantle the old educational system under which careers meant less than titles which were as often bought as earned. The task of teaching 980,000 illiterates, s seventh of the population, how to read and write also loomed formidably at the beginning of the Revolution. The great literacy campaign of 1961 involved more than a quarter of a million teachers. Despite the loss of many teachers to war and exile and despite CIA-run sabotage and assassinations of teachers, the campaign ended...