Word: sevens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Voice in 100. Measured against his earlier careers as businessman and Government administrator, Symington's performance during his nearly seven years in the Senate has not been spectacular. He has wielded little influence, fathered no important legislation. He works hard, putting in upwards of twelve hours a day, but effort has not translated into results that can be labeled as his own. In the Senate world of committees and compromises, his executive talent and experience are wasted: his is only one voice out of 100, and there is nothing for him to decide except where he himself stands...
...papermaking machinery to Russia, in return for Soviet wheat, coal, oil, autos. The Soviet-bloc share of Finnish trade will remain a vital 22%. Asked whether Russo-Finnish relations would be hurt if the Finns should join their British and Scandinavian trading partners in the proposed Western "Outer Seven" bloc, Mikoyan returned a wary answer. "That is a matter for the government of Finland," he said, "which will take steps, of course, to see that Finland's interests are not hurt in the building of such blocs. In the Soviet Union, we are opposed to such blocs." Weighing their...
...fade from sight. The son of a carpenter (and amateur musician), he studied piano at the Dresden Music School, at 18 started to play concerts all over Germany. A decade later World War II interrupted his career. Assigned to an antiaircraft unit, he did not touch a piano for seven years, except to play in U.S. military hospitals as a P.W. at war's end. When he resumed his piano career in 1946, at 34, after a year of small-town orchestra conducting, he found that his technique was rusty but his musical perception far sharper than...
...similar theme occurs in conjunction with a familiar biblical echo: The man old in days will not hesitate to ask a little child of seven days about the place of Life, and he will live.For many who are first shall become last and they shall be come a single one . . . When you make the two one, you shall become sons of Man, and when you say: "Mountain, be moved," it will be moved...
...words, he must pressure-cook a stew of abstract facts for easily graded objective tests geared to handle swelling classes. The average U.S. English teacher meets 175 students daily in five classes. Should he assign one theme a week to each class, he would spend four hours a night seven nights a week, plus half the weekend, correcting papers...