Word: elevens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from Rubble. Hardly a decade ago, the scene would have been unthinkable. Krupp and his eleven directors were in prison, convicted of war crimes. In Essen, a bomb-strewn jungle of twisted steel and rubble covered the site of the mighty steel plant, bristling with naked chimneys, that had once been Krupp's throbbing heart and muscle. Across Germany, Krupp's vast holdings were rapidly being dismantled and shipped off by the Allies, determined to stamp out "the merchants of death" who in two world wars supplied the cannon used by the long German columns to blast their...
...certain that he could fend off attempts to weaken the enforcement powers of Part IV with compulsory jury trials that he declined White House aid lest it offend his group of Northern Democratic liberals. By midweek Bill Knowland could tick off a safe 39 Republicans, another ten or eleven Democrats ranged against the jury trial...
James Riddle Hoffa, ninth vice president (of eleven) of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, is a tough, resilient man who can slide on his face in a stable and come out smelling like honeysuckle. Three weeks ago he defied what looked like an open-and-shut case against him to win acquittal on charges that he tried to plant an agent on the staff of the Senate's McClellan committee investigating labor racketeering (TIME, July 29). Last week he turned up cockily for a San Francisco meeting of the Teamsters' constitution revision committee, there unloaded some...
...damage and loss of human lives, the government fretted over the earthquake's possible effect on the vital tourist trade. Although only 10% of U.S. tourists pulled out, the government tried to play down the earthquake. Official figures put the national death total at 67, and even when eleven more bodies were unearthed in Mexico City one day last week, the official count stayed the same. More likely fatality figures: about 200, all but 50 in Mexico City...
...early lead as they slid past Southwark Bridge and Saint Paul's. Behind him came Bob Gibbs, Jack Smith, Ken Green, Dave Reed and Malcolm Troubridge. Still in front when he passed the finish line at Chelsea after 27 min. 20 sec. of rowing, he was only eleven seconds ahead of Bob Gibbs...