Word: sevened
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...three armed services, Johnson had ordered the Navy to lop off $353 million as its share and let the admirals decide where to do the trimming. Last week the Navy was obediently dismantling 21% of its air arm to meet the new ceiling. Twenty-eight Navy and seven Marine combat squadrons were being withdrawn from service; operations were being reduced at six air bases...
Adenauer lives quietly in a white, comfortable house amid the vineyards near Bonn, with the three youngest of his seven children. Colleagues sometimes take jovial pokes at his bourgeois dignity. When Adenauer argued against Frankfurt as capital for the new republic because he thought it an "immoral city," a fellow politician cracked: "Dr. Adenauer, we assure you, we are smart enough to protect ourselves from those pitfalls that you escape by virtue of your...
...last three titles, will also take umbrage at this charge from the Big Three's cellar-dweller. Perhaps the rest of the Ivy League is perturbed by the fact that Harvard has announced its intention of going small time, but is still going to play six of seven Ivy teams...
...Fifty-seven percent of the women suggested changes and improvements in college education, including a closer relation between college studies and life after college, more freedom in the selection of courses and more professional training...
With a ten-meet schedule ahead, Ulen thinks seven the most the varsity team can win. "Yale--out of this world; Army--2500 athletes, in early every night; Dartmouth--better than last year, had a fine freshman team:" Ulen mutters; "and Princeton has the second fastest breaststroke in the world (Brawner...