Word: seven-year-old
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...Cohen and Jerry Vreenfield, high school friends from Long Island, started Ben & Jerry's in Burlington four years ago. Now, at age 30, they tend strongly toward plumpness and prosperity. In place of the traditional seven-year-old boy who must be bribed with dasher-licking rights before he will turn the crank of the hand freezer, they use a reduction gear to make the paddles of the freezer in their wholesale plant turn slowly enough. At their ice-cream parlor, a rowdily redecorated former gas station, an elderly White Mountain Freezer Co. rock-salt-and-ice contraption chunks...
...March 1973, President Bok defended the University's seven-year-old affirmative action policy in an opinion piece published in The Crimson: "The University has a moral obligation to provide equal opportunity to women, minority persons and all other groups who work or seek work at Harvard. Our sorry record in past years suggests that we must take special efforts to fulfill this obligation...
...Many of them were bent and crippled, many with white heads, some with bouquets," wrote Saint-Gaudens. Cannon on the Common fired a salute. William James, the philosopher, declared that the casualties' common grave "bore witness to the brotherhood of man." Booker T. Washington, who was a seven-year-old on a Virginia plantation when Shaw died, rose to say that the "real monument" to Shaw "is being slowly but safely builded among the lowly...
...form of 'migration ball.' Running from one end of the field to the other, the entire team follows the course of the ball. While decreasing the number of players who actually handle the ball, this method increases the number who may hope to handle it. And to a seven-year-old, that hope is the key to the game...
...involved, and they have a tendency to get into the act themselves." True enough, if the neighborhood searches conducted by residents over the weekends are any indication. More than 600 people took part in the first one, on Oct. 18, which found the skeleton of a seven-year-old victim...