Word: seventh
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tragedy was the seventh major accident involving the DC-10, including the Paris crash, which was later attributed to the loss of a cargo door while in flight...
Andy Kaufman sheds characters like a cold-sufferer discarding Kleenex. He is not only this indomitable overreacher called simply "Foreign Man." He can be, as easily, a lowlife Vegas saloon singer named Tony Clifton; a heartsick yearner after a lost love from the seventh grade; a ringmaster for a kind of rainy-afternoon kiddie show, full of cartoons and silly songs. In all those guises, Andy Kaufman is a little like a stand-up Pirandello. But what adds particular piquancy to his lavish charades is Kaufman's adamant refusal ever to drop his own mask...
...place in the reporting of serious news and the relaying of intelligent commentary for personal vendettas. In the May 21 Crimson you reported that during a meaningless softball game "short-fielder Bob Boorstin committed three embarassing errors to let in a pair of unearned runs in the seventh...
...final weeks of the negotiations were among the most secretive and suspenseful of the past two years. Vance and Dobrynin were meeting regularly now, sometimes every few days, usually in Vance's hideaway study behind his formal office on the seventh floor of the State Department. On the problem of encryption, the Administration sought to do in writing, in the form of a letter from Carter to Brezhnev, what Vance and Earle had tried to do orally in exchanges with Gromyko and Karpov. The letter set forth the American contention that a repetition of the encryption used...
...scribes' mound-man Steve Herzenberg twirled masterful two-hit ball, but lost his shutout bid when short-fielder Bob Boorstin committed three embarrassing errors to let in a pair of unearned runs in the seventh...