Word: sevenths
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...shut down every Martian night, and the message was not received. "One miscalculation cost us the whole evening," sighed J.P.L. deputy project manager Brian Muirhead. As a result, Sojourner remained incapacitated and unable to operate the next day. That led a rover team member to crack, "On the seventh day, it decided to rest...
When Dr. Junior-Spence asked seventh-grade Stephens why his name was Harvard, he replied, "that's where I'm going to school...
...Seventh, the AMERICAN STATES would agree to subfidize from tax levies a television network dedicated to the broadcaft of high-toned COFTUME DRAMAS and middlebrow police PROCEDURALS produfed in the British Isles, and to greet with enthufiafm, feigned if necessary, the mufical compofitions of SIR ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER...
...lost opportunity. But on the cultural radar, presidential recognition barely registers next to playing a pivotal role in a popcorn movie. In last year's Independence Day, the seventh highest grossing film of all time, Bill Pullman's President Whitmore also assures an audience the government has nothing up its sleeve concerning UFOs and Roswell, only to be told by his Secretary of Defense, "That's not entirely accurate." Well, sure--otherwise the movie would be finished halfway through. Fortunately, the embattled Earthlings are able to use the recovered Roswell saucer against the invaders and triumph. Talk about vindication...
DIED. ADOLPHUS ("Doc") CHEATHAM, 91, late-blooming trumpeter; in Washington. Once an understudy for Louis Armstrong, Doc became a leading sideman of the swing era. His buttery lyricism and witty improvisations played better with age. By his seventh decade, he had grown into his trademark stance--trumpet held high, pointed to the heavens...