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Word: seven (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with the O's 11 games up on the Yanks--the Red Sox seven--and a black tie dinner at The Ritz in October at stake with my roommates, I paid my quarter and boarded the Red Line bound for Kenmore Sq. As I switched to the trolley at Park St., more and more passengers sporting the Fenway look pushed, shoved and crowded around me. Blue and red helmets, sweatshirts, Red Sox painter's caps, and almost any other type of paraphernalia imaginable cluttered my vision--all emblazoned with that hated "B." As the trolley rattled closer to Kenmore Square...

Author: By Lorren R. Elkins, | Title: Confessions of a Yankee Fan | 7/20/1979 | See Source »

Eckstein added that the recent departure of seven senior executives dramatized the problems of being a small company. Their departure did not cause the sale, but it was a factor, Eckstein said. The executives left to start their own competing company, he added...

Author: By Kim Bendheim, | Title: McGraw Hill Inc. Plans to Buy Company Run by Otto Eckstein; Data Resources Stock Jumps | 7/17/1979 | See Source »

...standard Yearbook of American and Canadian Churches lists only 296 denominations. Lutheran Theologian Arthur C. Piepkorn tracked down 735 North American groups for his Profiles in Belief (Harper & Row is up to Volume IV of this posthumous seven-volume work). Now comes J. Gordon Melton's encyclopedia listing 1,187 "primary" denominations in the U.S., which makes him America's champion church hunter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Church Hunter | 7/16/1979 | See Source »

...finals with an amazingly easy win over Jimmy Connors, 26, the temperamental American who won the title in 1974. Their eagerly awaited match turned out to be a reprise of last year's championship rout. Once again, Borg triumphed in straight sets with the loss of only seven games, and once again he needed a short time to do it-106 min., three less than last year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Wimbledon: Game, Set, Out! | 7/16/1979 | See Source »

...goose-stepping infantry welcomed by cascades of flowers and the joyous peal of church bells'. Vienna-born Walter Maass, who specializes in wartime history (The Netherlands at War, Assassination in Vienna), strives to explain the complexities behind that event, and Austria's increasingly reluctant role during the seven years of Nazi rule (1938-45) that followed. Country Without a Name (Austria was absorbed into Germany as an assemblage of Nazi-run districts) is a bleak, sad story...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Anti-Reich | 7/16/1979 | See Source »

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