Word: eleven
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Heckling in Hue. Undaunted, the eleven candidates for President stepped up their own efforts to collect ballots...
...myself." President Johnson's 22 observers arrived to see for themselves, and were clearly impressed with the mechanical organization of the balloting. Some 100,000 people were due to be working at the 8,808 polling stations, and more than 460 million ballots have been printed for the eleven presidential tickets and 48 ten-man Senate lists. Votes were to be counted on the spot, the results radioed first to district, then province headquarters and finally to Saigon. A committee of the Constituent Assembly, which framed the constitution, was charged with watching for irregularities...
...scion of a wealthy Baltimore brokerage family, Woodville showed his precocious talent at the tender age of eleven in a small but accomplished watercolor portraying a dying general. Properly educated, he studied anatomy at medical school for a year, then set off to train in Germany when he was 20. There, in Dusseldorf, he learned the romantic lighting and theatrical staging then in vogue, techniques that worked as well on U.S. local color as on Rhine landscapes. Though he lived abroad for most of the brief ten years before he died at 30, his fondest subjects remained the Eastern Shore...
...title to Jackson's property and sell it. The sale was just as quiet, and Paul Primock, ostensibly acting for Sears, was allowed to buy all of Jackson's buildings and acreage for $647.71. It was all done so discreetly that Jackson knew nothing about it until eleven months later, when he tried to borrow money and the loan company discovered that he had no property to borrow against...
...have been so to the man ner of public service born as Henry Cabot Lodge. Here is an authorized biography-an admiring one-of Lodge's distinguished career, including 13 years as a liberal Republican Senator and eleven as U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. and Viet Nam. The virtue and the defect of the book is that Lodge is largely seen through contemporary journalistic accounts of his activities, plus his own speeches and writings. The feel of history is well caught, but Lodge the private man is elusive, and critical assessments...