Word: eleven
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...Eleven Languages. Despite its excesses, Powell's campaign does make one legitimate point. Today's overcrowded, economically laggard Britain can no longer afford to make good on the old colonial "myth that we wrote into law" and grant entrance to every Commonwealth emigrant who seeks to settle there. It is a realization that both major British parties share; in fact, under a 1962 law, immigration is already severely limited. It is restricted mainly to persons whose relatives already reside in Britain and to those who have received official work permits, which are issued at the rate of about...
...Powell is a 56-year-old M.P. from a district in the sooty Midlands city of Wolverhampton, which he has represented since 1950; he is also a former professor of Greek at Australia's Sydney University, at age 27 was the author of four scholarly books, and speaks eleven languages with varying degrees of proficiency. Powell argues his case with a formidable intellect...
...average, only one out of every eleven records hits the charts-meaning the trade magazines' top 100; Jimmy Bowen has a three-out-of-five hit rating. His specialty is lending up-to-the-minute commercial appeal to long-established "household names." In 1964, while producing an album by Dean Martin, he saw possibilities in a little song written 15 years earlier by Martin's pianist, Ken Lane. He released it as a single, and Everybody Loves Somebody carried Martin to the top of the bestseller charts for the first time in two years...
...American shot-putter Dick Benka shattered his own University record by nearly three feet last night to lead the Harvard track team to a 76-33 victory over Northeastern. The Crimson thin-clads swept the first two places in seven of the eleven individual events, holding the Huskies to two victories before splitting the two relays...
...Eleven minutes went by before Harvard next scored. The third line reopened the scoring when DeMichele put one into the nets at 16:27. Cavanagh again got the assist. Within 21 seconds Ron Mark tallied the Crimson's seventh goal...