Word: elevens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...final months of the International Geophysical Year drew near, President Eisenhower sent to eleven other nations* an invitation that was also a warning. Along with the U.S., the eleven had all sponsored IGY research projects in the Antarctic, and seven of them had longstanding territorial claims upon the vast (5,500,000 sq. mi.) continent. Without some kind of international agreement, wrote the President, the Antarctic might well become a dangerous source of "political rivalries." Last week, after a series of secret preliminary meetings, the world's first Antarctic conference opened in Washington-and paradoxically enough, the international climate...
...million transmitter complex that, by any measure, will rank as the world's biggest. Rising 980 ft., its two main antenna masts are almost as tall as the Eiffel Tower (984 ft.). With their flanking arrays of twelve smaller masts, each complex occupies the ground space of eleven Pentagons. Operating at 2,000,000 watts, the station will be 40 times more powerful than the biggest commercial stations and three times more powerful than the mightiest military transmitters known to exist in the U.S. or the Soviet Union...
...Square. The two first teamed up in 1957. Gossage, who had run a successful campaign for Australia's Qantas airlines as a vice president of San Francisco's Cunningham and Walsh, became the firm's writer and thinker; Weiner, who had his own small agency for eleven years, handled the business details and helped kook up the campaigns. For one of their first accounts, Oregon's Blitz-Weinhard brewery, they placed an ad in The New Yorker that read: "Keep Times Square Green! A modest reforestation proposal from Oregon's largest and only brewery...
...fickle wind, and a rejuvenated Dartmouth eleven combined to give the Crimson its second loss of the season Saturday, 9 to 0. Grinding out their victory under ragged clouds and torrential rains, the Indians upset all predictions as they produced the most potent ground offense the Crimson has seen this year, and thoroughly destroyed its hopes for the Ivy League title...
With a dubious assist from Saturday's torrential rain, which caused numerous fumbles and missed tackles, the Yardling eleven tallied three touchdowns in a second-half rally to defeat Dartmouth at Hanover...