Word: elevens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spirit, like that of his men, was greater than his body could stand. Struck down with a coronary thrombosis, for three days he refused to be evacuated, was finally ordered out. As he recuperated in India, the Marauders' 2nd Battalion was trapped at Nhpum Ga for eleven days, and cut in half. Trying to relieve their comrades, the 3rd Battalion was also stunned and exhausted before Stilwell's main Chinese offensive forced back the Japanese...
Years of frustrated desires and months of delicate negotiations were concealed in a few paragraphs of turgid prose that lay before the eleven diplomats of the U.N. Security Council one day last week. Its title was Draft Resolution Doc. S-3502. Its fate rested with one man who sat, sad and misleadingly tranquil, behind the name plate of China...
...foot baskets now that he's got Wilt the Stilt. For the boxing and wrestling rooms we wish a fancy Air-Wick bottle and new punching bags. There might as well be a jump in the stadium for the ski squad two lawn courts for the tennis team, eleven full-blooded Indians for lacrosse, and a new mechanical foil for the fencing room. The soccer team doesn't appear to need anything...
Although recent de-emphasis and an Ivy League ruling against post-season competition have combined to make the Crimson eleven an unlikely bowl prospect, such was not always the case...
...washstand. From then on, his life is much like that of a military inductee. His day begins at 6:15 with 20 minutes of calisthenics, proceeds on a split-second schedule which keeps him constantly moving on the double. He is never left unsupervised. (At Kidlington there are eleven staff members watching over 55 boys.) After breakfast and inspection, the younger boys attend classes; the older ones work about the grounds (with brief cocoa break at 11) until 11:55, break for lunch, return to a work detail until 4:25, when they knock off for tea. Evenings are devoted...