Word: eleven
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...eleven years, grumpy Charlie had ramrodded the Bronx Democratic ma chine he inherited from Franklin...
Across the river, new head coach Dick Harlow encountered problems in his effort to rebuild the Harvard football machine. His team ended the season without a major victory and lost to Yale, 14-7. The Yardling eleven also succumbed to the Elis, 21-19, but their unexpectedly strong showing was viewed in the press box as a harbinger of better days...
...early stages, the worst of the fighting was centered in a small town, eleven miles west of the Georgetown capital. Last week the violence flared all across the unhappy colony. One night in Leonora, ten miles west of Georgetown, a band of terrorists attacked a police patrol, killed two constables and escaped with their rifles. Next morning an elderly Negro couple was found shot to death on their nearby farm. At news of the killings, a raging mob of Negroes halted a Georgetown-bound train and in a vicious melee left 17 East Indians injured, including one victim with both...
...London that brought 500 more Tommies to reinforce the troops already on hand. Still the killing went on. At Bachelor's Adventure, a predominantly Negro village 14 miles from Georgetown, Negroes took up spears and pitchforks, began attacking Indians and burning their homes. A pregnant woman, mother of eleven, was killed by a spear thrust in the back, her husband was critically injured, and an Indian watchman on a sugar plantation was shot dead. In Wismar, 60 miles south of Georgetown, Negro bands burned close to 200 homes and killed four East Indians, including one man burned to death...
...social fabric fascinated her even as a little girl. At eleven, she started her first novel, beginning: " 'Oh, how do you do, Mrs. Brown?' said Mrs. Tompkins. 'If only I had known you were going to call I should have tidied up the drawing-room.' " (On which her mother commented: "Drawing-rooms are always tidy.") Soon she was dispatching poems to Scribner's Magazine with her calling card attached, and when she began to be published she learned her first hard truth about old New York society: it had no use for brainy women...