Word: sevening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Banion mob was wild. In a cavalcade of seven cars, led by Hymie Weiss they went openly to Cicero's Hawthorne Hotel, Capone's headquarters, sprayed the windows with Thompson submachine guns. Capone crouched out of harm...
...only misdeeds the State could prove, this onetime Public Enemy No. 1 will have served seven years and six months. His plans were secret. He was diseased and afraid. There were many men left who remembered his tyranny...
Someone had apparently planted a high explosive bomb within, or in the attic above, the hall's central pillar. The explosion toppled the pillar, brought the ceiling down on the assembled Nazis' heads. Seven (including Maria Henle) were killed, 63 injured. Had the Führer stayed even for one glass of his special 1.0 beer, history might have taken a new course...
Before long seven of Adolf Hitler's Cabinet members had arrived. Just out of an all-day conference with the Führer were Commander in Chief of the German Army General Walther von Brauchitsch; Commander of the Navy Grand Admiral Erich Raeder; Colonel General Wilhelm Keitel, chief of the German Armed Forces, and, most important of all, Air Minister Hermann Göring. He sported a row of shining medals on his resplendent braided uniform, and was flanked by his trusted adjutant general of fliers and ja-man, Major General Karl Bodenschatz...
...nothing of Britain's last war until months after the outbreak. Word of it was finally brought to Bounty Bay by the crew of a Tahitian tramp. That was before a best-selling trilogy and a four-star movie made Pitcairn Island the most publicized hideout on the seven seas, and prompted a well-meaning, sympathetic U. S. to enrich the 200-odd hybrid islanders with all sorts of civilized niceties, including a powerful amateur short-wave radio station, VR6AY...