Word: eleven
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...concession when Hickel's lead narrowed. Last week's official canvass put the vote at 33,145 for Hickel, 32,065 for Egan and 1,085 for an independent. The outcome confirmed the number of governorships won by the G.O.P. so far (excluding Georgia) at 23 (v. eleven for the Democrats), for a net gain of eight, and control of 25 statehouses...
George Meany and Walter Reuther have been feuding, publicly and privately, almost since the day that their unions joined to form the A.F.L.-C.I.O. eleven years ago. Meany, 72, the federation's president, has won the important points, and Reuther, 59, the top vice president, has usually knuckled under - partly in hopes of winning the older man's support to succeed...
Officials of New York City's Air Pollution Control Commission asked utility companies to switch fuel for their furnaces from polluting oil and coal to clean-burning natural gas and ordered the city's eleven belching garbage incinerators turned off. In Manhattan, all sufferers from respiratory ailments, heart diseases or bad colds, as well as children under two years old and the elderly, were advised to avoid the poisonous outside...
...even a toothless, crippled and nearly blind woman whom one guerrilla carried away on his back. During the march to a Viet Cong camp, 14 women and children risked death by dropping out of line and squatting unobserved in the tall rice. When the group reached its destination, eleven men, 33 women and 63 children-many of them under five-were herded into grass huts...
After the first day, the eleven men disappeared, presumably drafted into Viet Cong ranks, even though all were either elderly or middle aged. Then the Viet Cong began indoctrinating the women and children. In four-hour sessions held at gunpoint, they told their captives that they were "killing thousands of Americans and winning many battles," and that "the American intruders are losing the war." Every hour the indoctrinator paused and asked if anyone wanted to contribute to the session. The peasants were stubborn, recalled Ho Thi Xien, a widow who was kidnaped along with her war-orphaned grandchildren...