Word: 111th
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Oxford: a four-length victory over Cambridge in the 111th Dark Blue-Light Blue crew race down the Thames, stroking the 41-mile course in 18 min. 7 sec. Powered by four sturdy Yanks, all former Yalemen studying at Oxford, the Darks opened up two lengths after the first mile, pulled steadily away for their 49th...
...white turkey like you will be easy to spot," a policeman warned New York Correspondent Nick Thimmesch as he started down Harlem's notorious 111th Street. "So if anybody bothers you, tell them you are a welfare worker delivering a check...
...nether border of the Negro's world is Central Park. From just one block north, the fresh breezes and greenery seem a planet distant. Here is 111th Street, between Fifth and Madison Avenues, infested with prostitutes and dope addicts. Up a ways, at 118th and Lenox Avenue, is "junkie's corner," and at the New York Central overpass at 125th Street, over which suburban commuters ride every day between air-conditioned offices and well-kept homes, Negro prostitutes wait for white johns who know the spot and drive by in their cars...
Kuwait, a hot and dusty Arab sheikdom, last week became the 111th member of the United Nations-but did not enter, as so many others do, as an underprivileged nation. With $480 million pouring into their coffers each year from Kuwait's gushing oil wells, the 322,000 residents of the Connecticut-sized country on the Persian Gulf have a per capita income of $2,200, one of the world's highest. Kuwait collects almost no taxes, spends ten times more per capita than Britain on such welfare state services as medical care and education for its citizens...
Blood & Mud. Major Masters led his disciplined Gurkhas of the 111th Indian Infantry Brigade on slashing raids against the Japanese and on harrowing night marches. Then he learned what war was really like: he was ordered to make a stand at a point code-named Blackpool. Outnumbered and outgunned. Masters' men were slowly driven back. "I wanted to cry," he writes, "but dared not, could only mutter 'Well done, well done.' " The brutality of battle numbed both armies. "A Cameronian lieutenant fell head-first into a weapon pit and two Japanese soldiers five yards away leaned weakly...