Word: eleven
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...number of Americans fallen on the battlefields of Viet Nam since 1961, compared with 187,000 Communists killed. Last week the enemy toll jumped further when 581 Viet Cong were killed in a fierce battle with U.S. troops in War Zone C. The U.S. lost eleven infantrymen-a ratio of 53 enemy dead for every American death...
...greatest reward of all, of course, is that Weight Watchers look better to members of the opposite sex, and know it. Singer Sylvia Syms, 43, dropped 30 lbs. in eleven weeks, as a result dared to wear a bathing suit for the first time in her life on a recent Caribbean vacation. And when New Jersey Housewife Fran Jaffe, 38, took off 50 Ibs., her pleased husband presented her with a full-length mirror, to which he lovingly attached a note: "You are the fairest of them...
...main objection is that certain teams (like Dartmouth's eleven and Princeton's five) may be flooded with G.U.T. less opponents. Some League officials suggest giving teams the option of declining to schedule half-hearted opposition, but that view shows a lack of understanding for the undeniably valid principles involved...
...enemy's ranks, some striking as close as 100 ft. to the shrunken U.S. perimeter. A big Chinook chopper swept through smoke and fire to drop slings of fresh ammunition. But the G.I.s were down to their last bullets, and in some bunkers to a single grenade. Eleven of the batteries' 18 howitzers lay silenced by enemy fire; artillerymen loaded the remaining guns while kneeling amid burning shells. As the enemy fire poured in and the Viet Cong, scenting the kill, closed in for a final assault, everyone in Suoi Tre from gunners wielding pistols to cooks...
...that he then stabbed his wife to death in a fit of passion, a crime punishable in Texas by no more than five years in prison. For the prosecution, Castilleja blandly testified that he had only a platonic relationship with Mrs. Alcorta. In 1957, after Alcorta had faced execution eleven times, the Supreme Court reversed the conviction on the ground that Castilleja had actually been Mrs. Alcorta's "lover and paramour"-a vital fact of which Prosecutor Hubert W. Green Jr. was fully aware. In 1958 Green was named Texas' Outstanding Prosecutor...