Word: eleven
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sino-Soviet front, Brezhnev had regretted the Soviet Union's "unsatisfactory" relations with Red China, but had carefully left open the door to reconciliation. Brezhnev also swapped his title of First Secretary of the Communist Party for the old Stalinist title of General Secretary, and the Presidium, or eleven-member steering committee, was renamed the Politburo-another Stalinist label. But party speakers emphasized that the names derived from Lenin's time, not from Stalin's, and would only strengthen collective leadership...
...more generous set of Government officials might have decided that the Senators were due for a war on poverty grant. They gave up eleven hits and, for the most part, looked feeble against the Indians Sam McDowell. McDowell struck out six of the first nine men he faced and he didn't allow a ball out of the infield until Fred Valentine singled in the fourth...
...threshold of pain and his mastery of the "upper-cup"-a left hook to an opponent's private parts-Chuvalo was ranked tenth among the World Boxing Association's top ten heavyweights. True, he had never been knocked down in 47 pro fights, but he had lost eleven, including three of the last eight-to Floyd Patterson, Ernie Terrell and an Argentine named Eduardo Corletti. Sportswriters called the fight "the mismatch of the decade"; bookmakers installed Clay as the 1-to-7 favorite-and then refused to take any bets. There were rows of empty $7 seats...
...Greatest," a carefree teenager who chattered amusingly about winning the heavyweight championship of the world and driving around in a tomato-red Cadillac. Now he is 24, divorced, in Dutch with the draft, condemned by Congressmen. He is the "champion of the world," but it is a smallish world: eleven states, the United Kingdom, Europe, Africa, Australia, and the Brotherhood of Black Muslims...
...operate in so many other countries that somewhere, some branch of the company will be doing well. This theory is amply justified by Italy's Pirelli Group, which produces half of its tires, cables and rubber goods in Italy and the rest in 25 factories in eleven other countries. During Italy's 1964 recession, the home company lost $120,000, but thriving foreign operations gave the group as a whole a profit...