Word: elevens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Poll behind them, the freshmen returned to athletic pursuits. The team forgot its rout by the varsity and treat softly into the monolithic Stadium to beat a green Dartmouth team, 11 to 0, It was the first time a freshman team had played in the Stadium, and the '32 eleven was properly impressed. Harvard was changing, and the old and the comfortable had to give way to the broad vision of the mustachioed president in University Hall, who knew much and told little, and who had many new ideas for Harvard...
Inevitable Rule. Well aware that the members of Kenya's eleven main tribal groups and hundreds of clannish subgroups find little agreement among themselves, many white Kenya colonists stood by confidently awaiting the first signs of schism among the eight African parliamentarians, but the signs never appeared. "The eight of us will differ in matters of detail," said Mboya, "but on the basic question, we don't." Fortnight ago, as Mboya's restlessness was felt more and more throughout the land, penetrating even the Mau Mau detention camps, Kenya's government ordered government tape recorders installed...
...caught them at the edge of the rugged Sierra del Cristal, killed 16. Castro chose that moment for a double show of force. From his sanctuary in the high Sierra Maestra his 100-odd men swooped down on the army garrison of the tiny Oriente town of Uvero, killing eleven of Batista's soldiers and wounding 18. In Havana, Castro supporters who had tunneled under a street to a vital power cable set off 50 sticks of dynamite and crippled the capital for 57 hours...
...than three-quarters of the Indianapolis 500-mile auto race was behind him at 2:01 p.m., C.D.T. on Memorial Day, and handsome Sam Hanks was right where he wanted to be: in front of the pack. Now, for the first time, he began to worry. A veteran of eleven unsuccessful attempts at the "big spin in the brick-yard," Sam had planned to steal some time by making only two pit stops in his light, low-slung Belond Exhaust Special. He had already made them, and he could not be sure whether his latest set of tires would last...
Basic Bestsellers. The cash came early: Fats is only 29. Eleven years ago he was plunking out "back-beat," barrelhouse piano while he sold "snowballs" (shaved ice and flavoring) from a New Orleans streetside stand. By 1949, he played "rhythm and blues"-the record trade's postwar tag for Negro pop music with the beat, but not the brass, of Dixieland. His record, The Fat Man (Imperial), hit for an 800,000-copy sale. In 1955 rhythm and blues got transformed into rock 'n' roll and began to boom; so did Fats...