Word: sevens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, as the Senate droned on about slums in Chicago, Philadelphia and New York, Illinois' freshman Senator Paul Douglas invited his colleagues to inspect the slums that lie within the shadow of the Capitol. Four Senators made the first trip; seven the second. With Douglas as guide, the first group-Republicans Wayne Morse, Homer Ferguson, Raymond Baldwin and Democrat Theodore Green-set out with the air of men exploring an Arabian casbah...
...Andrew Hoffman of New Orleans had been told that their seven-month-old twin sons Denny & Kenny were blind, and had been blind from birth. Not giving up hope, the Hoffmans chartered a plane to New York. At Manhattan's Presbyterian Hospital they heard good news: Denny had "some vision"; Kenny would undergo an operation...
There was almost no resistance. Communist guns-753 and 1053-opened up from the north shore seven hours before the deadline set by the ultimatum for unconditional surrender. At 11 p.m., an hour ahead of schedule, shock troops jammed onto river craft and struck across in a vast envelopment on both sides of Nanking. One field army under General Chen Keng took Tikang, 80 miles southwest and upriver from the Nationalist capital. Other forces under General Chen Yi poured across 35 and 65 miles east and downriver from Nanking, snatched the river port of Chinkiang and the river fort...
Aboard the Amethyst, other wounded and the dead still lay on the deck. The British destroyer Consort had started from Nanking at the Amethyst's first S O S, to succor the stranded crew. The Consort was flying seven large British flags. She, too, was fired upon by the Reds, and retaliated with her 4½-inch guns. "It was bloody awful," said a Cockney survivor from the Consort. "But we gave it back to 'em. I saw one of their nahsty damned 'owitzers blown right aht of its bloody emplacement. Sky 'igh it went...
...children's finest hour. All over London small boys in grey flannel shorts and school caps could be seen walking solemnly about, cheeks bulging, a look of supreme contentment on their faces. All over Britain, pink faces were blissfully smeared and little fingers were wonderfully sticky. After seven lean years for British moppets, candy rationing ended last week...