Word: eleven
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...smoking Mount Merapi in teeming central Java, where economic dissatisfaction is helped by one of the world's densest populations. Somewhere in a lOO-sq.-mi. triangle centering on Mount Merapi, Indonesia's Red Boss D. N. Aidit was said to be hiding out with ten or eleven cohorts in the P.K.I.'s stoutest stronghold: the party claims some 1,000,000 members, 30% of its total, among the poverty stricken peasants in the region surrounding the sprawling city of Solo. In the month following the abortive "Gestapu" (30th of September) coup, the P.K.I, openly defied...
SAMs-in an oval site comprising vans and camouflaged tents, squatting in the center of a web of dirt roads about eleven miles from the highway bridge. The missile hunters flashed in at treetop level, pumping cannon shells and slipping loose their 750-lb. bombs. For 20 minutes, the Thunderchiefs slammed away; there were no further missile shots. "They're going to be working on those vans for three, four years-if they even fiddle with 'em," said Air Force Captain Robert L. Harris, of Long View, Texas. "You can't knock 20-mm. holes in those...
...shivah"; for seven days after the burial they stay home, wearing some symbol of a "shredded garment," such as a piece of torn cloth, and keeping an unkempt appearance. Friends bring food as a symbol of the inability of the bereaved to concern themselves with practical affairs. For eleven months sons are enjoined to say the prayers for the dead in the synagogue twice...
...prelude to the announcement, he will probably reshuffle his cabinet (he has already said his second eleven is "at least as good" as the first) rewarding some of the better ministers of state and consolidating his control over the part. Then, as one eminent British diplomat remarked recently, "he will attempt to remove himself from the danger of defeat and bring in Britain's belt...
...brilliance that kept the outcome in doubt until the fourth period. And the game's hero was not Charley Gogolak, the Tigers' vaunted soccer-styled kicker, or their great linemen, Paul Savidge and Stas Maliszewski. It was an end with the improbable name of Lawson Cashdollar, who caught eleven passes for a new Ivy record...