Word: eleven
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...published, but published for gold. Then there are the foundations. If one can't get a Guggenheim, one can always get a Ford, and if not a Ford, a Rockefeller. At the last meeting of the Northwestern University Finnegans Wake Society, a discussion group of professors and friends, eleven of the 14 members reported they were going to Europe for the summer-and not paying for their trips. For intellectuals, the greeting "Good Day," it has been suggested, should be replaced by "Fair Fulbright...
Yale's starting pitcher tomorrow will probably be Don Raymond, a converted outfielder who performed excellently in his first two League games of the season. In 18 innings of pitching, Raymond gave up just 12 hits, struck out eleven, and yielded one earned run, for an earned run average of 0.50 in EIBL competition...
...Crimson made only five of the eleven errors, but the five were devastatingly timed. All but one of the nine Tufts scorers who got on base, advanced or tallied because of Harvard errors--and the ninth advanced into scoring position when a teammate was hit by a pitched ball...
...death in 1941, when the company's sales were only $12.9 million. Under his aggressive direction, Morton passed its biggest competitor, International Salt, in the mid-'40s, began producing as well as marketing in every region of the country and overseas. In addition to its eleven U.S. plants, Morton has six in Canada and another eight in Latin America and the West Indies. It owns the largest salt-research laboratory in the U.S., is building a pilot plant to tap power and extract chemicals from the large reservoir of hot brine under the Salton Sea in California...
Insatiable Infant. "Sex," he once said, "is the principal business of life," and from his initiation at 15 to his death at 74, he lived in a jungle of erotic involvement. He endured eleven years with a wife and 26 years with a mistress, Helen Richardson, whom he eventually married just a year before his death, for the sake of the domestic comforts they provided, but conducted multiple affairs with college girls, actresses, housewives and heiresses. Always in search of new mistress-mothers, he devoured them all like an insatiable infant. He charmed them, lied to them and used them...