Word: sevening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Poland, with the heat at 90°, seven persons drowned while bathing in the Vistula. In Moscow, where fortnight ago overcoats were still in order, the temperature rose to 79°. The temperature reached 93° in France, sending practically all of Paris to sipping beer and lemonade in outdoor cafes or to swimming in the dozens of floating pools in the Seine. Mid-week thunder showers brought relief...
More serious and more detailed were Mr. Cope's charges that the Franco regime had seized six or seven shiploads of food that the Quakers sent to Spain for 100,000 half-starved children. As far as he could find out, the food went to the Army. In Murcia, he said, he turned over to the Spanish Social Auxiliary, the official Spanish relief organization, enough food to last the 1,000 children they were feeding there a month and three days. It was all gone in ten days...
...fantasy, telephoned the Columbia Broadcasting studios, asked if they really had broadcast a game between the New York Giants and the Cincinnati Reds. What he had heard: the feeble Giants, who have been flopping around in the second division of the National League all season, had just whammed out seven homeruns in three innings-five of them in one inning, three of them in succession-against the powerful, League-leading Cincinnati Reds...
...Seven! Holy cow !! Okay, though guy, I'll take...
...little numb as he climbs into the front seat of the roller-coaster. He mutters something about a coward dying a thousand times and plasters a grin on his face. A bell rings, somebody screams, and the cars begin to move. Seven times or bust! Vacation...