Word: elevens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...little after 2 a.m. an eleven-car caravan raced from Miraflores Palace along a four-lane highway towards Caracas' tiny, little-used Carlota Airport. In a silence broken only by far-off scattered shots, Carlota's runway lights blinked on. At 2:53 the four engines of a DC-4 sputtered into action; 15 minutes later the plane lifted west over the downtown section of the city. In a few minutes the plane's winking red light disappeared behind the mountains edging the city, and Pérez Jiménez was gone, kited off after five...
...farmer follows expert advice on breeding and feeding, gets leaner pork, which brings higher retail prices and competes better with beef. With marketing risks removed, farmers can deliver more pork-on-the-hoof. Packers have shown hog-raisers how to take a unit of 33 breed sows, breed eleven of them every two months and over a year deliver 500 hogs to market in six marketings as opposed to the old rate of two per year. Thus, they smooth out seasonal peaks, and avoid gluts that have caused the Government to step in from time to time...
...lived with Félicie in a cozy, two-room Paris apartment just down the street from Père-Lachaise Cemetery. He was a quiet man, always neatly dressed, always polite to his neighbors. Félicie was a short, plump, sad-eyed widow with bobbed greying hair. Eleven months ago she disappeared. Clé explained, "Félicie has gone to Italy. Life is much easier there. I will soon join her." But to occasional callers who rang the bell and asked for her, Charles Clément was more truthful: "Madame cannot be disturbed...
...couch, his wrists slashed, a bullet in his temple. All the furniture was broken, picture frames and glassware smashed on the floor. In the bathroom, police found the tub covered with plywood boards and a mattress. In it was the decomposing body of Félicie Crippa, eleven months dead of head wounds. Instead of Lysol, Clé had poured several gallons of Eau de Cologne into the water...
...close contacts (mostly kin) of those who got the vaccine. There were eleven deaths. Vaccine from Wyeth Laboratories was suspected of causing several cases of polio but no live virus was found...