Word: sevens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Seven weeks after Communist Gerhart Eisler sneaked out of the U.S. as a stowaway, his wife Brunhilde, 37, set off in style last week to join him in the Soviet sector of Berlin. Because she was being deported (for overstaying her visitor's permit), the U.S. Government had to lay out $468.09 for her airline ticket. Even so, she was feeling a little miffed...
Cautiously, but conscientiously, he set out to clean up a Los Angeles that had 300 gambling houses, 1,800 bookies, 23,000 slot machines and 600 brothels. He waited for seven months before he took steps to remodel the police department, but when he did, he kicked out 23 high-ranking officers. He appointed a college graduate as police chief, and a Rhodes scholar as fire chief...
...Mexico complained that the U.S. already owned 54,000 square miles-about 44% of the state's total area*-counting seven national forests, a national park, the vast Los Alamos atomic energy layout and the Armed Forces Special Weapons installation east of Albuquerque...
...Seven others have more to complain about. The U.S. owns 87% of Nevada's land, 73% of Arizona, 72% of Utah, 64% of Idaho, 53% of Oregon, 51% of Wyoming, 46% of California...
...Seven months after the overthrow of the Action Democrdtica government of President Romulo Gallegos, the A.D. was again a live force. The junta itself was largely responsible for the revival. Its failure to back up its wholesale charges of corruption and irresponsibility in the Gallegos regime brought many Venezuelans to the A.D. side...