Word: seven
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Crimson held a 29-25 advantage with seven minutes left in the stanza when the roof collapsed. Penn recaptured the lead, 31-30, and then reeled off ten more points as the Crimson's scoring drive stalled. At halftime the count stood Penn 43, Harvard...
...scant two years later, ABC is attempting to make lightning strike twice - and now everyone is on the alert. When Roots: The Next Generations opens its seven-night run on Sunday, Feb. 18, both audiences and the TV industry will be judging the offspring against its towering parent. Expectations are running high. Commercial time has been sold out for weeks, at $210,000 to $260,000 a minute (compared with $120,000 to $150,000 for Roots 1). The series has already been sold to 20 countries. CBS and NBC will not be caught napping again; their fierce counterprogramming gambits...
...ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, he wondered if the strange African sounds his grandmother had passed on to him could somehow be the key to his own background. He discovered that they could, and he spent the next twelve years doing research and writing, eventually tracing his own origins back seven generations to a young African by the name of Kunta Kinte...
...lecturer is all Navy: blue uniform, gold braid, seven rows of ribbons, a lined, leathery face and a full mane of white hair. Like a captain on his bridge, he paces back and forth before his students, 45 mature, mid-career military officers taking a year of graduate studies at the Naval War College in Newport...
...Seven months later, his endurance sapped, Stockdale realized that if his interrogation continued, he would probably give up secrets. He finally employed a lesson he had learned from Thomas Schelling's 1960 The Strategy of Conflict, a work he had come across at Stanford. He stabbed his wrists with broken glass, producing pools of blood that horrified his guards and made them end their interrogations. "I felt the only way I could really deter and stop the flow of questioning was to show a commitment to death," remembers Stockdale. "I don't think that I intended...