Word: sevens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...members were ex-lawyers and ex-law professors; only two of them (Vinson and Rutledge, who had served on the Court of Appeals) had had any previous experience on the bench. As Supreme Court justices they were young (average age, 59)-Seven of them, the largest number of appointees by one President since Washington, owed their jobs to Franklin Roosevelt. The Nine in the order of their appointments...
...afternoon recess was called, spectators in the Washington courtroom clung to their seats like grim death, eyes riveted on slim, black-haired Judith Coplon. After seven weeks of sitting by, as loud-mouthed little Defense Attorney Archie Palmer contested espionage charges against her, Judy was going to take the stand. She pushed back her chair at the defense table, walked a few feet, and knelt beside her mother, Mrs. Rebecca Coplon, a black-clad, sorrowing woman...
...seven weeks, a U.N. Palestine Conciliation Commission had sat in Lausanne, Switzerland, trying to hammer out a final peace settlement between Israel and the Arabs. It had been a strange sort of conference, in which none of the disputants on one side would speak to anyone on the other. Under the circumstances, it was hardly surprising that the conference had made little or no progress...
...November, the Chinese Communists dropped their Bamboo Curtain over the U.S. consulate general in the Manchurian metropolis. Communist guards virtually imprisoned the n Americans, led by kindly, goateed Consul General Angus I. Ward, within their consular compound, denied them radio facilities, branded them as "espionage organs." Last week, after seven incommunicado months, Angus Ward finally got a letter through to the U.S. consul general in Peiping. His staff was safe and morale "good." But Angus Ward had no word as to when & how he could follow Washington's order of last May-to leave Communist Mukden and its bamboo...
...Cleveland's Municipal Stadium a fortnight ago, 61,523 fans looked on glumly as Bob Feller got his lumps. The New York Yankees clubbed him for seven runs in the first inning. In the press box somebody cracked that the catcher was throwing the ball back harder than Feller was throwing it in. Was the Cleveland Indians' great pitcher washed up at 30? As he plodded off to the shower, with the Yankees still at bat, Bob Feller was the droop-shouldered picture of discouragement...