Word: eleven
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Somewhere along the line, the Mission Rebels drafted an eleven-point manifesto for their generation's hangups. They declared war on "an image that does not give a true picture of youth"; a community that does not give youth a voice in planning; and an environment marred by substandard education, limited training programs, jobs with no future, adult lack of interest and discrimination. Since then, unlike many a youth group elsewhere, they have won most battles in their generational war-plus $82,000 from the Office of Economic Opportunity...
...under observation, and began an ancillary career: jail breaking. When the police got him back, they kept him for five years; when he got out, he says, "you might say I took up bank robbing as my vocation. In about two years, with various accomplices, I made eleven withdrawals. There wasn't much planning-none of that movie stuff with diagrams and stop watches. We'd just pick a likely spot...
Perhaps the most dramatic discovery was made by a group of volunteers who unearthed eleven small, mysterious potsherds. Each was inscribed in Hebrew with a different name, one of which was that of Eleazar Ben Ya'ir, the leader of the Zealots. "Could it be," asks Yadin, "that we had discovered evidence associated with the death of the very last group of Masada's defenders?" The answer, he feels, is suggested by Josephus' description of the last moments of Masada: They then chose ten men by lot out of them, to slay all the rest . . . and when...
women's fashions. Matchan grabbed a chance to stake a claim of his own. "I started all this conglomeration business eleven years ago," said he, "whereas you people only cottoned to it about a year...
Died. Eddy Gilmore, 60, Associated Press foreign correspondent for 32 years, eleven of them (1942-53) in Moscow; of a heart attack; in East Grinstead, England. Said Gilmore of his Russian labors: "I wrote for the smallest audience in the world, that one censor whose blue pencil ripped my copy-and my heart...