Word: elevens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Some 500 artists, scientists, educators (including six Nobel Prizewinners, eleven Pulitzer Prizewinners, 90 members of the National Academy of Sciences) called for Eisenhower's re-election in full-page ads in the New York Times and Herald Tribune. Prominent "Eggheads" for Ike: Poets Marianne Moore, Robert Hillyer; Novelists John Marquand, MacKinlay Kantor; Musicians Irving Berlin, Lily Pons; Nuclear Scientists Willard F. Libby, Isidor I. Rabi...
...Eleven-Year Silence. Poland's break with Russia was the spark. Hungarian students got permission to express sympathy with the Poles by gathering silently before Budapest's Polish embassy. Then the Central Committee of the Communist Party canceled the permit. Party Leader Erno Gero, belatedly conferring with Tito on means to "liberalize" the regime and expected back from Belgrade that day, wanted no political demonstrations. At noon there were angry student meetings in every college. At the Polytechnic a printing press was seized, a broadsheet printed. Budapest came out to see the student fun. Said an old woman...
...earth moved to the tread of a million feet in Hungary last week, and a satellite which had been blindly spinning in the Soviet orbit for eleven years suddenly swung out of its gravitational course into a still unsteady national axis. It had never happened before. As the world looked on, incredulous, a people armed principally with courage and determination (and a few filched guns) fought one of the most spectacular revolutions of modern times. Behind barricades, from rooftops and apartment windows, they harried their powerful oppressors in the classic revolutionary manner, and at week's end they...
Jordan's main concern is to make sure the team is "up" for the visiting Red and Blue. It is always hard for a Harvard team to concentrate on an opponent when it knows that an undefeated Princeton eleven is waiting for it next week...
This meant that there was, temporarily, a full team of 15 men. Eleven of these are now in Montreal; the other four made it as far as Leominster, Mass., (30 miles from Boston) before their car broke down. The four, Tony Markella, John Alden, Line Ford, and George McGarrity, are now in Cambridge...