Word: sevens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Switching to another mood, Khrushchev boasted that "in five to seven years we will be stronger than you. We developed the hydrogen bomb before you. Our rockets carry warheads many times larger than yours." Later, he mawkishly spoke of the man responsible for all this progress, the same man that he himself denounced three years ago in his dramatic, weepy oration to the 20th Party Congress as a maniac who had deported, tortured and killed by the millions. Describing Stalin's last days, in the first such account ever given a Westerner, Khrushchev told Harriman that for three days...
Cuba's Fidel Castro and his bearded rebels are probably not up to Trujillo's. Castro's warriors carry good U.S. arms, number 25,000. His defection-ridden air force includes 18 B-26s, seven T-33 Lockheed jet trainers, no jet fighters...
What was wrong with Stengel's Yankees was all right with seven other American League managers. For years the National League has had all the excitement-and 1959 is no exception, with a five-team pack nipping regularly at the Milwaukee Braves. But in the American League, a long Yankee lead and a solemn march to the pennant have been the usual condition at half time. Now the Yankees have touched off a scramble: as few as three games have separated the top five teams...
Sacred to Jews, Christians and Moslems alike, the rock has rarely lacked a noble covering. The present dome dates back to the great edifice erected by Abdul-Malek Ibn Marwan, Caliph of Damascus, in 691, who used up seven years' tax revenue from Egypt to realize his dream. In 1099, crusaders mounted a gold cross on the dome and turned it into a church. Later, Saladin Avon it back for Islam, lovingly coated the interior arches with mosaic, the walls with marble. Suleiman the Magnificent ordered the exterior walls covered with splendid blue tiles...
Steel users eagerly snapped up that production as a strike hedge. They had already expanded their inventories from 13 million tons in January to more than 21 million tons, equal to seven weeks' top-level output by the industry. The Big Three automakers have squirreled away sufficient steel to get a good start on production of 1960 models. Among makers of appliances, Westinghouse and General Electric have a 30-60 day supply...