Word: sevens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...villagers, converts flocked in by the score. The name of Garry Davis began to creep into almost every conversation about the price of grapes and apricots. The mayor dreamed up the idea of declaring Trouillas to be world territory, and sprang it on the council one day when seven of 13 councilors were present. The seven were a quorum, and every one was in favor...
...persecutors of Christ and Stephen were "proper Communist gangs." Outraged members wanted to shut off Willie's blasphemy, but the speaker ruled regretfully: "I do not think there is any rule which makes it out of order, but I must say it fills me with disgust." After almost seven hours of debate the House voted, 412 to 4, to extend the government's emergency powers for a month...
...high kicks-but then Margaret has always shown herself to be more a child of Victoria's son Edward VII, an habitue of Maxim's in the days when Offenbach's music set the pace for Parisian gaiety. As Mademoiselle Fifi, Princess Margaret and seven of her friends turned the embassy party into a show that would have delighted Edward's eye if not his sense of royal decorum...
Rings on His Fingers. This band was led by a capetánios named Papouas, a onetime physical culture student in Athens who had joined ELAS during the German occupation. Papouas boasted that he had been a scourge of Thessaly and Roumelia for seven years. The name Papouas was a pseudonym-taken, he said, from a primitive tribe whose members wore rings on their fingers and toes and in their noses. Papouas had many rings, but he wore them only on his hands...
From boyhood, handsome, wry John Gerard (Jack) Werkley wanted to be a reporter. Born 36 years ago in Paterson, N.J., at 17 he got his chance on the Paterson Evening News. Later, at the Missouri School of Journalism, he unofficially majored in the lives of great newsmen. Then, for seven years, he was a reporter for the Associated Press and the Oklahoma City Daily Oklahoman...