Word: sevens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Shortly after the disruption in September, seven warrants were issued, none of them for Harvard students. Six were John and Jane Doe warrants, and one was for Eric M. Mann, leader of Boston's RYM/SDS chapter...
...beautiful woman who serenely lay down on the executioner's block one morning in 1587 seemed to be leaving behind a life of failure. She had spent nearly half of her 44 years in captivity, and was now condemned to be beheaded as a traitor. During the seven years that she had actively reigned over a small and backward nation, she had achieved nothing of note in foreign or domestic policy and had gradually yielded her power to a swarm of savagely contending noblemen. Most decisions in her life had turned out wrong. The last -to seek refuge...
...wrote poems and plays ("At the age of eight, I thought it was perfectly easy to do anything that Shakespeare had done") and developed a lifelong passion for history and biography. "I had a childhood identification with Mary Queen of Scots," she says. "I would get some of my seven brothers and sisters to act out the execution scene, with me playing Mary and saying very dramatically, 'Don't cry, good people...
...During the third year, pregnant with her sixth child, she sometimes toppled over when lifting heavy index files in libraries, and once fainted in the British Museum. Six weeks after the birth of the child, she sat down in a little study partitioned off from her bedroom and in seven months wrote the 250,000-word manuscript. Drafts in progress were pinned to her husband's pillow at night with a note: "Mark an X where you get bored." Her neck became dislocated from the constant typing, but she remained so emotionally involved that she could weep while writing...
...students, three elected by prospective concentrators in the field and three by the members of the Association of African and Afro-American Students, were subsequently added to the Committee's seven faculty members. The Standing Committee recommends all appointments in the new department, and will continue to exercise this power until four permanent appointments have been approved, when it will be succeeded by an eight-member Executive Committee, to be composed equally of faculty and students...