Word: eleven
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Long, Red Curls. Jack, a quiet, neat child with long, red curls, began working at eleven, helping his mother sell crockery from a pushcart. After graduating as senior class president from Manhattan's George Washington High School, he worked as a lithographic-supply salesman and a bill collector, attended New York University's law school at the same time, passed his bar exams in 1927. In that, year was born Javits & Javits, a firm specializing in bankruptcy and corporate reorganization, with Ben the inside man and Jack the eloquent trial lawyer. Jack, who set up his own firm when...
...year of victory, and it very nearly was. By May of last year the black-pajama-clad Viet Cong were roving the South with impunity. Giap's forces owned the Central Highlands. South Viet Nam's army was bloody, reeling and exhausted, its strategic reserve destroyed, and eleven of its maneuver battalions in need of complete rebuilding before they could fight again. To Giap, it seemed only a matter of time until Saigon was forced to the conference table, where he could dictate the terms: reunification and the Communist engorgement of South Viet...
...played it back in Poland is the only way." In addition, the parade of guest conductors has turned the players into musical chameleons, denied them a distinctive style that they can call their own. Says one flutist: "Under Paul Paray we play the Leonore Overture in eleven minutes; under Josef Krips we do it in 15 minutes...
...prosecutor was a candidate for municipal judge and the presiding judge [the late Edward Blythin] was a candidate to succeed himself." Judge Blythin, who won in a landslide, was undisturbed when Cleveland papers published the addresses of all 75 veniremen, who were thus deluged with letters and phone calls. Eleven jurors had read about the case before being selected; seven continued to receive Cleveland papers. All twelve were pictured more than 40 times in those papers, which they were free to read throughout the nine-week trial because they were not sequestered until they retired to reach a verdict...
Because airlines needed a medium-haul plane that could keep on earning after prime daytime passenger hours, United helped Boeing jigger its tri-jet 727 to set the entire cabin area on eleven quickly detachable pallets that can be moved over small rails and rollers in the plane's floor. To convert the 96-passenger plane for cargo service, workmen roll the pallets out of the cargo hatch on to a van, fold up the hat racks, then roll in 20 tons of cargo on eight pallets from another van. Total time: 30 minutes. In all, eleven...