Word: sevens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Truman and his good friend Dutra (who is a head shorter) also got together at a more sensible hour of the day to eat a few slices from a seven-tier cake prepared in honor of Dutra's 64th birthday (see cut). When they got down to more serious talk, the two Presidents agreed to begin negotiating a treaty to stimulate foreign private investment and U.S. technical assistance for Brazil. In flowery Portuguese, Dutra assured a joint session of Congress of Brazil's enduring friendship. When the Presidents parted, Eurico Dutra handed out his bread & butter gifts...
...refused to be dominated by admirals, but he made no attempt to usurp their jealously held prerogatives. He simply did his job, better, perhaps, than any service Secretary in history. He drove himself with a kind of quiet intensity. Year after year he worked seven days a week, from early morning until late at night. His vacations were risky expeditions under fire on the battlefronts...
...clubs rode out of cities in trucks to patrol country roads, force the braccianti into the strike. At Molinella, northeast of Bologna, they ambushed farmhands going to the fields, tangled savagely with carabinieri who came to the rescue. In the melee, a Red woman worker was shot dead. Twenty-seven anti-Red workers went to the hospital. One moaned: "Will it never end? Can one never work in peace...
Over the next seven years, other trainers learned to worry when Ben Jones came into sight. He had hard-hitting horses?Joe Schenck, Inscoelda, Technician, Rifted Clouds, Lady Broadcast...
Jayvee: Hutchinson, stroke; Carter, seven; Merrick, six; Taggart, five; Bohlen, four; Hewitt, three; Saltonstall, two; Cox, bow; Aldrich...