Word: sevens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seven struck stevedoring companies, largely controlled by Hawaii's Big Five, had refused adamantly to arbitrate the dispute, or to give ground to the longshoremen's demands for a 32?-an-hour boost in pay (to $1.72). Said Governor Stainback: "I'm inclined to say a plague on both your houses...
...debate and eight time-consuming roll calls by the Southern bloc, the House passed the anti-poll tax bill last week by a vote of 273 to 116. The House had approved it before-in 1942, 1943, 1945 and 1947-only to have it die in the Senate. The seven poll tax states would be required to eliminate the tax in all federal elections. Southern Senators vowed to filibuster it to death again...
...Twenty-seven years ago dusty, somnolent little Whitney, Tex. (pop. 2,000) became the recipient of a homely but extremely functional civic improvement: Druggist D. ("Doctor Dee") Scarborough installed a pine bench in the shade outside his store. The bench soon became as integral a part of Whitney's life as the Plaza in Santa Fe or Fountain Square in Cincinnati...
There are good reasons for distrusting the facile analogy between 13 homogeneous colonies and seven nations very different in historical background and present social philosophy. Yet it was a fact of some importance to the world that the federal-union movement was growing in the U.S. and that Kefauver's resolution had as large and as varied a cross-section of senatorial support...
Their heads shorn, their eyes red-rimmed, the 60 faced the court-martial last week. Seven were sentenced to death, 14 to life imprisonment; the rest were set free. Dimitrios got off with a life sentence. Said Anastasia Hadsis, whose husband was executed by a firing squad: "Judas has betrayed us and lives...