Word: elevens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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United Auto Workers Organizer John Watkins, for eleven years (1942-53) an official of the Farm Equipment Workers Union, knew just what he would and would not tell the House Un-American Activities Committee when he appeared before it on April 29, 1954. A witness of straightforward manner, he testified that he had never been a card-carrying Communist. But he admitted that from 1942 to 1947 he had cooperated with Communists "to such a degree that some persons may honestly believe that I was a member of the party." He agreed to answer all questions about his own participation...
After three more hours of speechmaking, the talk-tired Senate, backing up Bill Knowland, voted to bypass the Eastland roadblock under Rule 14. The tally: 45 to 39, with eleven Northern Democrats (not including Oregon's civil righteous Wayne Morse) supporting Knowland, and five mossy Republicans (Arizona's Barry Goldwater, Nevada's George Malone, South Dakota's Karl Mundt, North Dakota's Milton Young, Delaware's John Williams) breaking ranks to join the Southerners. Still ahead after the Fourth of July recess: an all-out Southern attempt to drown it in a flood...
...home, was unscored on after 17 innings of pitching, had a 2-0 record. Paced by the tremendous hitting of Old Standby Stan Musial. who leads the league in batting (.365) and runs batted in (53), is second in home runs (15), the Cardinals for the first time in eleven years seemed bent on flying all the way to their first pennant-with an assist from Lindy and Von. Said Veteran Musial: "It just seems as if they knew how to pitch when they were born...
During the Cleveland Orchestra's breakneck European tour (eleven countries, 29 concerts in 41 days), its reception has been in tune with the critic of Paris' Le Monde, who thought that he had "never heard anything more excellent." In Barcelona audiences cheered their approval of the orchestra's classical repertory. For Budapest-born Conductor George Szell, the greatest recognition came in Vienna. where that dean of critics, grumpy old (83) Max Graf, who knew Szell as a boy, voiced one of his rare, muted raves. "The sounds," he said, "were good indeed...
...some 30 million Americans fish the country's lakes, streams and seacoasts; last year they spent nearly $800 million for equipment, including 11 million rods and 8 million reels, plus more than $1 billion in other costs. One of every four men is an angler, one of every eleven women. The big boost that has made sport fishing big time, say the Nags Head "professors," is a threefold improvement in tackle...