Word: seven
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Kenyatta in a village in northern Kenya. He was tall and dignified, and Bell remembers him manipulating a fly whisk with great style and grace. At first he spoke haltingly, "not because he was a gone alcoholic," Bell recalls, "but because he hadn't spoken English in seven years. By the end, he was speaking as the London School of Economics scholar of anthropology...
...Next year he plans to trade in three or four of his old combines on several new John Deeres with 30-ft.-wide cutting heads. Price tag: $60,000 each. The Smalls' present inventory of equipment is worth better than half a million dollars: seven combines, six $20,000 trucks for hauling the cut grain to the elevators, three service pickups loaded down with about $20,000 worth of spare parts (the Smalls do all their own repair work), three house trailers, a 1976 pickup and a beat-up four-door blue American Motors station wagon...
...weekends, we had the Fox Plan, which was to make up the extra cost by abolishing hot breakfasts in the Houses. Another mistake -- somebody didn't know how to add, but by the time they realized that in fact Harvard could afford hot breakfasts and meals at the Union seven days a week, it was too late to turn things around. This year has promised to be different...
...seven men who comprise the Harvard Corporation finished drawing up their position in the old President's House and walked outside, they could not help but feel a little nervous, for less than 100 feet away more than 1000 students were holding an anti-apartheid rally. In the hope of taking the steam out of the protests, the Corporation decided to delay releasing its decision for two days. Despite the delay, the release of the decision rejecting student demands for divestiture set the stage for the largest student demonstration at Harvard in five years as more than 3000 students participated...
Every weekday morning, Mechanical Engineer John Buchan, 23, dresses neatly in a suit and tie and roller-skates seven miles across San Francisco to his office. He is not alone. The Bay City also boasts a roller-skating messenger service, skating grocery shoppers and skating mothers pushing baby carriages. In Los Angeles, Linda Ronstadt skated to a luncheon date with Governor Jerry Brown. On the boardwalk in Venice, Calif., a thousand skaters may appear on a Sunday, navigating perilously among pedestrians, while rolling guitarists serenade the sunbathers. In Minneapolis, the owner of Rolling Soles, Scott Sansby, 27, finds skating...