Word: sevens
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...roads day and night. At sundown women bolted their doors, refused to leave without male escort. Even in daylight many housewives joined in groups for protection; others armed themselves with pistols, ammonia guns, bottles of acid and carving knives. Bermuda had good reason to be scared. In the last seven months, three women have been murdered by a particularly vicious sex maniac; a fourth barely escaped. And the killer was still at large...
...first blabbed, the public began to listen when his charges were seconded by baby-faced Artist James Snodgrass, 36. Last week Snodgrass dramatically opened a registered letter, postmarked May 10, 1957, which not only gave the questions for the May 13 show (Sample: "What are the names of the Seven Dwarfs?") but also the instructions for painfully spitting out the answers ("Sleepy, Sneezy, Dopey, Happy, pause-the grouchy one-Grumpy-Doc -pause-the bashful one!"). Snodgrass enjoyed winning so much that when he was instructed to fall before the mighty mind of Hank Bloomgarden (who later went...
...fixed winner. One indignant Twenty One veteran, greying Mrs. Rose Leibbrand, executive director of the National Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs, explained how it was done. Just before showtime Producer Freedman fed her the answers, and a warning: "Just remember not to bid over seven or eight -or else...
...assassination plot hatched by anti-Catholic fanatics during his U.S. tour, Bedini asked the Holy See to furnish land and buildings, U.S. bishops to provide funds. Quartered in a converted convent on Via dell'Umilta (Humility Street), the school opened hopefully in 1859 with twelve students from seven states (three of the twelve later became archbishops). Pope Pius IX came himself for Mass, Communion and breakfast (including ice cream and punch); delighted students gave three rousing cheers for George Washington and three more for the Pope...
...raised on a Maine farm, Dixon is an Antioch graduate (1939). He did the school's part-time circuit (alternating terms of study and work) by night clerking and bus building, went on to Harvard Medical School and a career in public health. Dr. Dixon did a notable seven-year job as Philadelphia's commissioner of public health, became known as an able administrator with a keen sense of politics. At Antioch, which has some reputation for progressive preciousness as well as for successful schooling, Dixon announced that he aims to "invade the frontiers of the status...