Word: elevens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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First package in the load was cucumber-shaped Anthony Doria, who despite his vegetable-like appearance, sounded like the world's longest-playing record. For eleven hours, Doria, former international secretary-treasurer of the U.A.W.-A.F.L., virtually overwhelmed the committee and absorbed television viewers with a display of verbal sidestepping, sermonizing, non-sequiturs and assorted mishmash calculated to assure everybody that Racketeer Johnny Dio is just as honest and devoted to clean labor unionism as Anthony Doria himself ("If society had treated Johnny Dio right, he would have had the opportunity of becoming an outstanding leader in labor...
...fireman admitted that before boarding D-961 they had each downed five pints of strong Austrian beer and three Stamperln of liqueur. When the judge asked how big a Stamperl is, Oskar sheepishly pulled a liqueur glass from his pocket. For their wild night, the injuries to eleven of the 720 passengers, and the damages to six railway cars, the judge gave Oskar 18 months in prison and his fireman a year...
...million housewives tuned in to Ma Perkins this week, there was little doubt that bighearted Ma would help caddish Jack. For listeners know Ma better than they know Nora Drake, Our Gal Sunday, Young Doctor Malone, Mary Noble and eleven other serial sobbers. Ma, like Ivory soap, has been floating around longer than any of them.* Last week, saintly, sorghum-sweet Ma Perkins celebrated her 25th year on the air as the grey, bespectacled widow who operates a lumberyard in Rushville Center, U.S.A. For 15 tear-stained minutes a day, five days a week, Ma has solved more than...
...only defendants of eleven under indictment to concede the state's jurisdiction in the case. Harrison, who claims that he is not on trial, is fighting extradition to California...
Gustav escaped trial when a medical examination proved him senile (he died in 1950), but the temper of the times demanded a Krupp in the dock. Though both the British and Russians declined to try Alfried, he and eleven directors were put on trial before a U.S. court at Nürnberg, were convicted of plundering the industries of conquered countries and exploiting slave labor. Alfried was sentenced to twelve years in prison and forced to forfeit his property, the only property seizure of the war crime trials; his directors got sentences ranging from two to twelve years. The head...