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He was seven years old when his parents divorced, after which he was raised by his mother and stepfather, Jim Elmer.
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Hell, I gave him the first decent job he ever had, six, seven -- how many years ago was it, Rob ''??
He was thinking, big deal: skipper on his drunken fishing parties for seven years and no better off than when I started.
As different physically as the tall, angular Jefferson was from the chubby, rotund Adams, the seven were striking individualists.
All seven recognized that independence was but the first step toward building a nation.
William Coddington, who was running the colony, felt constrained to move seven miles south where, with others -- as mentioned above -- he founded Newport.
It was a quarter of seven when the crowd washed me up among the other gallants who had established the Astor steps as the beach-head from which to launch their night of merrymaking.
But when I saw that it was already ten past seven, I began to wonder if something had gone wrong.
They did not complain at the inhuman hour of starting ( seven in the morning ), nor of the tariff, which was reasonable since it covered everything but the tobacco.
It was his experience that only one good salesman was found out of every seven hired -- and only one was hired out of every seven interviewed.
The engineer had more than seven years of experience in the firm, was well trained, was considered a hard worker, was respected by his fellow engineers for his technical competence and was regarded as a `` comer ''.
) Wishing to show that aviation was dependable and here to stay, Bob Fogg always made a point of taking off each morning on the dot of seven, disregarding rain, snow and sleet in true postal tradition.
Another wart removal method was to rub each wart with a bean split open and then to bury the bean halves under the drip of the house for seven days.
He glanced at his watch, saw it was only seven, and decided to indulge his weakness now.
It's at the far end of the county and the last time I came here was for a hit and run manslaughter -- about seven months ago.
I myself had been up there by seven o'clock, after mushrooms, since there'd been a week of rain which had stopped early that morning and the day was as clear as Sandwich glass.
A mistrial was declared in the case against the other seven when the jury was unable to agree on a verdict.
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Because the summer was unusually dry and hot, the spring produced a smaller stream than in ordinary years.
Joe Purvis was thinking back many years.
The Gap looming before him -- the place where had confronted Jack English on that day so many years ago -- was his exit from all that had meaning to him.
But to the cattlemen who had been facing bankruptcy from rustling losses and to the cowboys who had been faced with lay-offs a few years earlier, he was becoming a vastly different type of legendary figure.
I had come to New Orleans two years earlier after graduating college, partly because I loved the city and partly because there was quite a noted art colony there.
My new Aunt was perhaps three or four years older than I and it had been a long time since I had seen as gorgeous a woman who oozed sex.
The Grafin, who was charmed by her, told her, `` Your sister who was here two years ago has quite dark hair.
I was puzzled by the remark, then I recalled the voice of mild Professor Howard Griggs three years ago in a university lecture on primitive societies.
To Tilghman the incident was just one of a long list of hair-raising, smash-'em-down adventures on the side of the law which started in 1872 when he was only eighteen years old, and did not end till fifty years later when he was shot dead after warning a drunk to be quiet.
He was about 50 years old.
Thirty years ago, while the nation was wallowing in economic depression, the prevailing philosophy of government was to stand aside and allow `` natural forces '' to operate and cure the distress.
The first systematic thinking about this Pandora's box within Pandora's boxes was done four years ago by Fred Ikle, a frail, meek-mannered Swiss-born sociologist.
Five years were spent with the Cologne Opera, after which he was called to Prague by Alexander von Zemlinsky, teacher of Arnold Schonberg and Erich Korngold.
Seven years later he was asked to become director of the Pittsburgh Symphony.
Though the four boys and two girls, the youngest nineteen years of age, the oldest twenty-four, came from varying backgrounds and had different professional and personal interests, there was surprising agreement among them.
Commanding the Continental Army for six long years of the Revolution, he was the indispensable factor in the ultimate victory.
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He was too old -- when he passed up and through the corridor of pines that lined the trail he could see ahead, he was passing from life.
It was pitiful to see the thin ranks of warriors, old and young, wheeling and twisting their ponies frantically from side to side only to be tumbled bleeding from their saddles by the relentless slam, slam of the cruelly efficient Hawkinses.
He was in earnest conversation with her father and the old vaquero, Luis Hernandez.
He'd put on his old brown corduroy coat and it was already soaked.
Forced to realize that this was the end of a very short line I scanned a road marker and discovered what the end of a slightly longer line would be for the old Mexican: Moriarty, New Mexico.
The car was just about to us, its driver's fat, solemn face intent on the road ahead, on business, on a family in Sante Fe -- on anything but an old pick-up truck in which two human beings desperately needed rescue.
I was standing beside her, watching the outspread palms and wondering about the old horsehair sofa against the wall on which he sometimes napped.
The Bonaventure was quivering and lurching like an old spavined mare.
For an anthropologist, loquacious old L'Turu was a mine of information.
The story was shaping up nicely in his mind: the young pioneer, as of old, altruistically braving the unknown ; ;
`` Oh he was stupid, her old man!!
for another, it was here that one of the old caravan routes came in.
But I suspect that the old Roman was referring to change made under military occupation -- the sort of change which Tacitus was talking about when he said, `` They make a desert, and call it peace '' ( `` Solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant ''.
On his father's side he was of German descent, on his mother's he came of the old Swedish nobility.
Strindberg's remedy for this condition was to tear down the old structures and build anew from the ground up.
At this period the thirty-year old Helion was ranked `` as one of the mature leaders of the modern movement '', according to Herbert Read, `` and in the direct line of descent from Cezanne, Seurat, Gris and Leger ''.
Only what else was she singing but the old Song of Songs, that most ancient of tunes that nature plays with such unfailing response upon young nerves??
It was much more fun, reminding the girls of their old carefree days in the Hasseltine frolics room at Bradford.
He had worked in the newspaper business since he was nineteen years old, always for the Hearst service.
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