Word: sevens
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Cuffe again paced the varsity with 15 points, on four baskets and seven out of seven free throws. Greg Loser poured in seven field goals for 14, and Gary Borchard had 13, including five of five foul shots. Bry Danner and Alex Hart tallied nine, followed by Marc Kolden with six, Bob Bowditch and Dave Grayer with four, and Bill Danner with three...
Navy's claim to great depth was compromised by its failure to take a single game from Holleran, Vinton, Lake, Lemann or Smith, who played numbers three through seven for the Crimson. In one of the most conclusive matches of an already decisive day, Peter Smith won his first game 15 to 1. Alden Briggs and Doug Poole completed Navy's defeat by taking the two final matches...
Underlying the good fellowship that produced agreement in seven weeks of negotiations was the fact that the U.S. and the Soviet Union do not claim any part of Antarctica. Nor do they recognize the often overlapping claims of seven other nations, which are "frozen" for the treaty's duration. Also simplifying demilitarization is the absence of military bases (some 50 scientific outposts hug the coastline) and a population in which penguins enormously outnumber people...
...fears both center on the immensity of its population-415 million people. India's population, second only to Red China's, is greater than all of South America, Africa and Australia put together. Indians speak more than 700 languages or dialects and belong to at least seven distinct racial types, from the tall, leathery, light-eyed Punjabi of the north to the frail, black-skinned Tamil of the south. Most of India's millions are underfed, badly housed and racked by disease. The average life expectancy of an Indian at birth is 32 years and five months...
...source of energy remains to him-the Indian people. Nehru's long romance with the millions on millions of kisans, or peasants, began when he was 31. Brahman-born and British-bred, Nehru had returned home to provincial Allahabad with his sense of innate superiority re-enforced by seven years of upper-class education at Harrow, Cambridge and London's Inner Temple, where he qualified for the bar. Already a romantic dabbler in the independence movement, Nehru agreed to accompany some oppressed peasants to their primitive village. What he saw there filled him "with shame and sorrow -shame...