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...their cattle over the grassy uplands rolling down from Kilimanjaro in what is now Kenya and Tanganyika, the Masai were fierce, sensual warriors who used dung and ochre for hair oil and drank cattle blood laced with urine. In periodic sport they swooped down on their Bantu neighbors, ramming seven-foot spears through the males and carrying off their women, who often did not seem to mind; the tall, aristocratic Masai were notable men, and Masai wives did not work...
...Cambridge Board of Appeals yesterday heard the University's petitions for building code exemption to permit seven-foot, six-inch ceilings in the new Leverett House buildings...
...Yuri, and he had not even made the Soviet Olympic squad. When Russia's Olympian Igor Kashkarov (who cleared only 6 ft. 10½ in. to finish third at Melbourne) claimed a jump of 7 ft. ¼ in., western trackmen began to wonder what was going on. The seven-foot barrier, which had once tripped everyone but California's Charley Dumas, seemed suddenly to have shrunk...
Forte and Dwyer between them tallied 61 points. The fast, shifty, 5-9, 145 1b. Forte drove and scrapped his way to 29 points, about the same average which has made him the nation's second top scorer, behind Kansas's seven-foot skyscraping Wilt Chamberlain. He was outperformed by his side-kick, however, as the 165 1b. Dwyer made good on 9 of 17 shots, many from the corners, and 14 free throws for 32 points...
...apply force for the longest time before releasing the shot." Boiled down to its essentials, the O'Brien put begins with the putter at the rear of the ring, crouching low over his right leg, his back turned to the shot's line of flight. Since the seven-foot circle allows scant running room, the added speed generated by the 180° spin before the shot is released makes a tremendous difference...