Word: sevens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pioneer IV obtained valuable information, but made only one trip through the belts before falling into orbit around the sun. Several devices in Explorer VI are studying the belts' range and fluctuating intensities. In one experiment, high-energy particles are measured by a 2-in. cube that holds seven tiny, gas-filled cylinders shielded with lead. The particles' passage ionizes the gas, creates electrical impulses of varying strength that are transmitted to earth...
...England coast, a lean, shy sailor out of Marblehead, Mass, tagged along with his new sloop to see what she could do. Last week the fleet was marveling at the record of the 40-ft., plump-breasted Robin and young (32) Designer-Owner Frederick Emart Hood: four wins in seven races and an overall first-season record of eight wins in twelve races...
...learned to ride back home in Vian, Okla., a little farming town (green beans, cotton, corn) near the Arkansas border. His father was a clerk in the general store, had five children, a pump and an outhouse; his grandfather had a big black mare named Kate. When he was seven and weighed just 55 Ibs., Ussery was clattering across the Oklahoma flatland, perched like a raisin on the bare back of Kate, and celebrating a win over other mounted kids by riding straight into a water hole, Kate...
Metal Badge. Amazed by the tunic's power to draw pilgrims, Pope Leo X and the Archbishop of Trier agreed to display it every seven years. Although wars, revolutions and the Reformation stopped its regular appearance, Tunica Domini never lost its appeal. In 1810 about 250,000 pilgrims went to see it, and at the last showing, in 1933, the tally was 2,000,000. Since Cologne's Joseph Cardinal Frings unveiled the tunic for the 1959 pilgrimage last month, almost a million Roman Catholics have visited the cathedral...
...police reporter. But life's seamy side was not for Edgar Guest; he asked for a change of assignment and was moved to the exchange desk-where a steady flow of incoming verse inspired him to try a hand himself. By 1916 he was rhyming his own column seven days a week, and he kept it up for 43 years...