Word: eleven
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Earlier this year, the Viet Cong swept into Hoa Hoi hamlet in Binh Dinh province, burned 185 civilian homes, destroyed the inhabitants' personal belongings. In Long An, Viet Cong mines blew up three buses, killing eleven civilians. In Pleiku province, a Viet Cong company took over a hamlet and murdered ten members of the council...
When his family moved into Johnson City (pop. then 350), Lyndon attended the two-story pink limestone school-biggest building in town. Five teachers taught grades one through eleven, carrying two or three grades each. Lyndon helped sweep the floor and stoke the potbellied wood stove. His favorite subjects, largely because of the able teacher, Superintendent Scott Klett, were civics and history. "I didn't like math or science much," says Johnson...
...drab stone buildings set amid giant live oaks and honeysuckle atop steep Chatauqua Hill, was, and still is, on no one's list of top colleges. Yet it gave the free-swinging youth plenty of elbow room. Since Johnson City school was unaccredited and had only eleven grades, Lyndon first had to take a sub-college cram course at San Marcos to qualify, was found fit in just three months, entered in March...
...came back strong, won 18 and lost only nine. Then, last summer, he developed a sore arm: in one 18-day stretch, he started five games and was bombed for six runs in each game. Once again, Gibson bounced back. He won nine out of his last eleven games, for a 19-12 record, went on to star in the World Series-beating the New York Yankees twice in the space of four days and striking out 31 batters to break a 61-year-old Series record...
...potty papa, for instance, tried to chirk up the landscape of his 5,000-acre estate in Derbyshire by painting blue Chinese ideographs on a herd of white cows. "Poor little 'E' " came along, and he decided to redecorate his gangling and disjointed daughter. When she was eleven he fitted her from head to foot with orthopedic braces designed to realign her physique-not omitting a steel clamp that gripped her nose and was "regulated by a lock-and-key system...