Word: elevens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...second half was discouraging for the home team, and not especially good basketball. Several times the margin was narrowed to eleven points, but then an easy lay-up would be missed and the Indians would open up the lead again. The fifteen-point margin at the end is a deceptive figure, for the winner did not extend themselves and used substitutes liberally...
...defeat definitely marked an end to any varsity hopes for a return trip to the NCAA championships in Colorado. These hopes had been based on a post-Christmas spurt which had given the Crimson ten victories in eleven games and on Saturday's 5-3 defeat of Boston College...
...flower, it comes out a dried-up thistle. "It is part of us, our youth of the war years, our youth which cannot escape from the climate of the war," a critic exclaimed several years ago. Buffet, who prefers to go on in glum silence, once explained: "I was eleven when war broke out. The misery of the occupation, the cold, the lack of food, all this has become everyday life to me . . . Even today I am still amazed that it is possible for me to enter a shop and buy whatever I like...
...equipment-maker, would need up to 30 days to start heavy equipment lines, e.g., turbines and generators. But Westinghouse has lost only a "negligible" amount of heavy equipment orders, since most big customers can afford to wait. Westinghouse will also be able to catch up by boosting output in eleven new plants that were picketed before they reached full production. Moreover, said the company. 25 of its 58 major plants are still in partial operation, e.g., the Columbus. Ohio refrigerator factory, where nearly 6.000 striking workers are back...
...They raised him for the position. Watching the Battle of Bunker Hill from a distance as little John Quincy Adams held her hand, his mother could not have known that both her husband and her son would hold the highest office. But three years later, in 1778, Abigail told eleven-year-old Johnny that his embattled country might one day ask him for leadership...