Word: eleven
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...York-bound airliners carrying some 4,500 passengers. Said William T. Burns, Philadelphia's assistant city commerce director for aviation: "It's incredible if they don't have something similar to our emergency lighting system." Incredible as it was, Kennedy Airport did not. It was shut down for eleven hours and 55 minutes...
...John S. Crawford, 36, spends weeks at a time as a wildlife photographer in the remote reaches of Alaska, Canada and the Pacific Northwest. He has suffered eleven bone frac tures, and frostbitten toes are a commonplace. Once, when stranded for eight days at the tip of the Alaskan peninsula, he survived by fishing safely while a grizzly bear pack lurked near by. He rarely carries a rifle. "A rifle," he says, "is a crutch. If you've got one, there are likely to be times when you break down and use it. If you just say, 'Hell...
Clever Ape. His luck finally turned when his work struck the fancy of Danny Thomas, who made him the director of his show, later elevated him to coproducer. The fat years, when they came, were obese. He has made and sold eleven pilot films, now sells shows on his name alone, without bothering to film a trial episode. His 1965 income for the first nine months...
...perceive his presence. To give ministers a firsthand knowledge of the inner city's secular forces, the National Council of Churches in 1962 proposed setting up an experimental school. Last fall the center began operations in the parish house of the First Congregational Church, supported by gifts from eleven Protestant churches and grants from several foundations, including the Rockefeller Brothers' Sealantic Fund...
From the time she first set up shop as a novelist eleven years ago, Irish-born Iris Murdoch was accorded a respectful acclaim. Because she was then a philosophy don at Oxford, nobody seemed overly concerned about whether her fiction writing was good or bad; as with Dr. Johnson's famous walking dog, there was only a happy wonderment that she did it at all. Because her prose was lucid, and sometimes even poetic, it was assumed that she deliberately kept her meanings opaque, and she was credited with a sense of mysticism. Because her characters usually were unbelievably...