Guru question! Something from 7.1 on 7.0.9 instead

This blogging issue with text beyond one single line on 7.0.9 is really driving the client up a wall. It's a finished business site which makes me look terrible, having to use excuses as to why this can't be changed. Who's dumb idea was it that a single line would be the way to go for previewing text?

Anyway, so here's my prize question and I'd be willing to pay for the solution. In order to avoid having to upgrade from 7.0.9 which involves changing about 8 different css files. Isn't there some way for me to import just the individual one or two (presumably) files from 7.1 to 7.0.9 in order to get those larger blog previews (multiple lines) to work on the homepage?

The client is happy as a clam with the site as is ... except for the blog issue on the homepage.
Again, I have no problem paying for the solution. I just can't wrap my head around the fact that Boonex devs actually figured that nobody needs to read or display more than a single preview text line in blogs ... which I would consider to be more important than the site news ... ???

I need screenshot of what you are trying to achieve and the site address with compression and caching disabled.

Thank you for your reply. I'm including a screenshot here. It's the blog preview text that I'm talking about. When you look at the screenshot you'll notice that only one line of text is displayed for the preview. I have it set to 390 characters though which should be at least 3 or 4 lines of text. In the news section the text displays correctly ... but in the blogs section it's limited to that single line of preview text. So in the screenshot, the underlined text that the black arrow is pointing at, that's the text that should show right there in multiple lines (390 characters anyway).

The site is restore15years.us but I can't disable the caching right now since the client has been in the process of uploading a video to the site. Don't know when that'll be finished, possibly not for a few hours. I don't know how to disable the compression since I had the site installed by someone else. I just did the site construction and have to maintain any changes that are wanted.

Go to modules/boonex/blogs/templates/base/css/blogs_common.css line 35 and change it to this

.blog_text selector change

white-space: nowarp;

to

white-space: normal;

clear css cache and done.

Awesome, thanks a million. I had the whitespace commented out on both css blog files and I'd changed the overflow from hidden to auto. That worked on FF but not on IE. Now it appears to be working all around ... except for the enlarged Blog caption (title with link) which I'd changed to 13px. Is there any way to change that without using the anchor.css since I only want to change the blog caption text on the homepage? Thanks again. You rock!

Same file line 126

.blog_unit .actions {
    font-weight:bold;
    font-size:12px;
}
You're a very welcome.

PERFECT. Thanks so much.