Word: sevenths
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Last year, Benson challenged his team to place seventh at the Eastern Championships--the winner of which goes on to the four-team National Championships--and the Crimson completed the mission, finishing in that exact spot...
Recently, ELIZABETH TAYLOR's life has been a bit of a bust for sensation junkies. Per fume launches and charity work are fine, but they don't evoke the Liz who made headlines just by quarreling with Richard Burton. So when "ol' violet eyes" announced that she and seventh husband LARRY FORTENSKY were undertaking a trial separation, people seemed less shocked than mildly nostalgic. "Let the tabloid games begin," Taylor said. But the tabs were already busy with fresh quarry--the rumor that J.F.K. Jr. had proposed to his girlfriend Carolyn Bessette...
...family has come to New York City, and Nadja (Elina Lowensohn) is a kind of Lydia Languish of the undead, striking fashionable poses as she plants her teeth in a few sweet necks. With her bleached face, impossibly high forehead and black hood, Lowensohn looks like Death in The Seventh Seal, only cuter...
...look up DuBois' great book The Souls of Black Folk and admire again its rolling thunder: "After the Egyptian and Indian, the Greek and Roman, the Teuton and Mongolian, the Negro is a sort of seventh son, born with a veil, and gifted with second-sight in this American world--a world which yields him no true self-consciousness, but only lets him see himself through the revelation of the other world ... One ever feels his twoness,--an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings ." Will DuBois' famous refrain--"the problem of the Twentieth Century...
Four years ago, James Acton was barred from playing on his seventh-grade football team in Vernonia, Ore. after he refused to take a drug test. Acton's parents sued, arguing that their son, who was not a known drug user, had been subjected to unreasonable search. Today, in a 6-3 decision with broad implications for all American students, the Supreme Court ruled that public schools can require athletes to undergo random drug testing, without establishing any suspicion that the students involved are abusing substances. The Court held that school athletes have a lesser expectation of privacy, so that...