Word: sevens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Congratulations on your courageous article concerning the untimely death of Ray Cirrotta of Dartmouth as a result of a brutal beating at the hands of Tom Doxsee and his seven friends [TIME, June...
Sabath shook his head: seven minutes was all he could spare. Before anyone realized what was up, "Goober" Cox called Sabath a "liar," swung at him with his right hand, clouted him on the side of the head and sent his glasses spinning...
Technically, what Harry Bridges' I.L.W.U. and the seven stevedoring companies were fighting over was a simple matter of dollars & cents. The stevedores wanted a pay boost of 32? an hour to $1.72, which they said would bring their wages closer to those paid on the mainland (West Coast longshoremen now earn $1.82 an hour). Management had offered, and then withdrawn, a raise of 12? an hour, refused to arbitrate. Harry Bridges' noisy West Coast mouthpieces,* sent to Hawaii for the negotiations, argued that a refusal to arbitrate proved that Hawaii's business interests were out to push...
...short-cropped, iron-grey hair, blue eyes and an easy smile stopped in at Room 102L. Dr. Cornelius Packard Rhoads, director of Memorial, the world's biggest cancer hospital, is an outstanding symbol of medicine's determined campaign against a disease which causes one out of every seven deaths in the U.S. Dr. Rhoads also heads the Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research, whose 14 stories rise beside the hospital. In this tower of hope, the world's most ambitious cancer research laboratory, highly specialized scientists and technicians experiment endlessly in the war against cancer; from...
...thing Author Grenfell makes painfully plain: the Bismarck was a huskier fighting ship than anything Britain had built. To bring her down had taken eight battleships and battle cruisers, two aircraft carriers, four heavy cruisers, seven light cruisers, 21 destroyers, six submarines and numerous shore-based aircraft. Captain Grenfell's account of The Bismarck Episode seemingly leaves the British Admiralty with some explaining to do about the quality of its ship construction and tactics. And while it is highly unlikely that war vessels of the traditional battleship type will ever again be built-at least...