Word: sevening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Twenty-two were members of a German prize crew who had kept the prisoners subdued while dodging British pursuit, sailing the ship across the South Atlantic. The ship was the British-owned liner Appam, captured off the African coast by a German raider that had already sunk or captured seven vessels. And as the Appam dropped anchor in the harbor of a troubled neutral, it gave the U. S. one of the complex, confused, unprecedented and yet precedent-ridden problems that are the test of the skill of a country's diplomats, the Tightness of its foreign policy...
This hearing was on charges made by seven rebel members of the Orleans Parish Grand Jury against the probity of District Attorney Charles A. Byrne. Mr. Byrne has supposedly been aiding the jury in a probe of the tangled corruption of Parish affairs throughout the State. Meantime pressure was brought-apparently by Earl Long-on Byrne to resign. Said Byrne: "There is no power or influence that can make me resign." Eighteen hours later he resigned, giving the familiar Louisiana excuse of "ill health...
...Chancellery they drove past the huge bronze doors, were honored by a company of the Führer's bodyguard standing at attention, entered the great Chancellery hall lined with servants dressed in silver braid, blue coats, red vests, black silk knee breeches. The Führer received seven of the delegation. Their program in Germany was to include visits to the Limes Line, the Krupp works and the Zeppelin plant at Friedrichshafen, and a short ride on a German warship as the guest of Reich Commander in Chief of the Navy Admiral Eric Raeder...
...lifelong literary practitioner whose dispatches from the Allied fronts of 1914-18 constitute one of the classic chronicles of World War I. At 62, Sir Philip felt "like Rip Van Winkle coming back to the scenes of his youth," which hadn't changed much. "Has it been seven days' leave or 21 years?" he asked himself. "It is the same old scene, exactly as it has lived in my memory as a kind of dream...
...Forth three weeks ago. A cloud of smoke was shown over the cruiser Edinburgh, described as a bomb striking the ship's port side aft of the second funnel. Official British account of the Firth of Forth raid maintained that Edinburgh was not hit directly, but suffered seven casualties when fragments flew aboard from bombs striking the water nearby. Where there is smoke there is not necessarily a hit, and the picture may have told the truth even if someone else lied...