Word: seven
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...population of 500, only 100 have survived; of these 90 are women. To compensate for the sharply lowered productivity of the village, the Khmer Rouge controller drives the survivors out into the fields at 4 a.m. for a twelve-hour workday. The daily food ration per person is seven spoonfuls of boiled rice gruel. Since last July there have been four suicides. Other peasants have gone berserk in the fields or have retreated into total, pathological silence. One Ko Tayou villager who fled to Thailand last month was Kim Am, 42, a Canadian-trained physician who survived the purges...
Before setting off for the Crusades seven centuries ago, Louis IX of France ordered the kingdom's bordellos closed. Uprooted but unfazed, many French prostitutes proceeded to join the Crusaders, traipsing along to the Holy Land as camp followers. Modern rulers have not had much better luck. When the French government cracked down on prostitution three years ago, the ladies of the night took sanctuary in churches...
...with the equivalent of a traffic ticket. Early hauls have included a 69-year-old man from New Jersey, let off in deference to his age. Other offenders will not get off so lightly. For patronizing a prostitute under age 11, the term can run as high as seven years...
Most of the "seven sisters" colleges have usually had big brothers at their helm. But when Elizabeth Kennan, a medieval scholar, is inaugurated as president of Mt. Holyoke on Oct. 7, all seven prestigious Eastern schools will be headed by women presidents for the first time in their history. "There was a certain feeling of elation among us that the colleges established 100 years ago to produce women leaders are at last led by women leaders," said Barbara Newell, president of Wellesley, when the seven met in Cambridge, Mass., to celebrate Radcliffe's centennial. Mary Patterson McPherson, the newly...
Most middle-level Americans divide that whole in three parts: the rich, the poor and "the rest of us." Coleman and Rainwater prefer a seven-layer view. From the top: the old rich of aristocratic family name; the new rich, or success elite; the college-educated professional and managerial class; Middle Americans of comfortable living standard; Middle Americans just getting along; a lower class who are poor but working; and a non-working welfare class...