Word: elevens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only 200 votes. Two days after the election, assembling ostensibly to mark the 34th anniversary of the Turkish Republic, a crowd of Republicans burst into shouts of "Stolen votes!" mobbed Democratic Party headquarters, wrecked the city hall. In an exchange of stones and gunshots, a policeman and an eleven-year-old boy bystander were killed. At Mersin on the south coast, a Republican was shot and killed in a similar demonstration...
Fighting for the truth has become a risky, lonely mission in strife-torn Indonesia. Since Sukarno's declaration of martial law last March, 17 papers have been padlocked for as long as eleven days at a time on the pretext of maintaining "peace and order." For editorial criticism of the government or even running "unofficial information," eleven editors have been arrested in the past ten months. None have been held as long without trial as Lubis. Embarrassed by his stubborn stand, the government offered to send him out of the country on a "scholarship." Indignantly rejecting the chance...
...somewhat doubtful that undergraduate feeling ran quite this high against Princeton. When November 26 came around and the Tiger eleven arrived in Cambridge, there was no rioting or efforts to lynch the Princeton team. Both coaches and teams were prepared for the game and no animosity was apparent...
There are, however, a few facts on the public record. Exeter annually sends about a third of its two hundred seniors to Harvard, where they compose the largest group of resident freshmen. These students are better prepared than any other group. Eleven of this year's thirty entrants with sophomore standing came from Exeter. As a group, the Exonians also do better over the years than any other group of public or private school students...
...Competition is hell." This largest single fact in the grim little world of a shoeshine boy came from a youngster of eleven, a veteran of four years on the sidewalk. George sat glumly in front of Briggs and Briggs on an ancient, beaten kit box. "All the shoe stores grab everybody. Some Saturdays I ain't had anybody...