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Word: elevens (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...idea is similar. An adolescent from the slums is charged with murdering his father: all the evidence is against him, and there has been a strong prosecution and a weak defense. When the stage is set around the jury-room table, an immediate vote shows eleven for Guilty and one for Not Guilty. The dissenter, Henry Fonda, begins a long haul against the prejudices, inhibitions and smug certainty of the other jurors to bring out the actualities of the murder night. In doing so, the inner actualities of his fellow citizens are laid bare...

Author: By David M. Farquhar, | Title: Twelve Angry Men | 4/17/1957 | See Source »

...eleven years the Dutch have been trying mightily to get new U.S. air routes to add to KLM Royal Dutch Airlines' profitable runs from Amsterdam to New York and Curasao to Miami. They have been opposed both by the Civil Aeronautics Board, which feels that the U.S. is already well serviced, and U.S. airlines, which want no more competition. Domestic lines keep a watchful eye on foreign carriers since the State Department granted lush U.S. air routes to West Germany's Lufthansa (TIME, June 27, 1955). But the Dutch made their campaign an affair of national honor. Last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Dutch Treat | 4/15/1957 | See Source »

Wetern leaders hope that the 1955 relaxation and the new developments indicate a Communist realization that nuclear war, in President Eisenhofer's words, "does not present the possibility of victory or defeat, only the alternative in degree of destruction." The history of the past eleven years of talks has never before shown any such realization...

Author: By Alfred FRIENDLY Jr., | Title: Disarmament | 4/13/1957 | See Source »

Certainly the eleven productions which, together with two parties, constituted the agenda for the three-day meeting, fairly wallowed in high seriousness. Only one of the shows, the Barnard production of Ferenc Molnar's Olympia, was clearly identifiable as a comedy, and several others, including the three plays written by undergraduates, could scarcely be identified as anything at all. One thing, however, became clear as the weekend wore on--much of college drama seems quite firmly in the control of people who like experimental theater...

Author: By Thomas K. Schwabacher, | Title: Yale Drama Festival | 4/13/1957 | See Source »

...Zealand background. His Scottish-born father was one of those lovable Victorian cranks-a promoter of religions and patent medicines, and a man who fostered domestic harmony by encouraging intellectual debate. In the raucous, blasphemous, antitraditional political life of New Zealand and Australia, Low found his style, starting at eleven as a cartoonist for dim but gallant little periodicals, then graduating to the rambunctious Sydney Bulletin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Matchstick Historian | 4/8/1957 | See Source »

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