Word: elevens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Aboard the Dutch freighter Utrecht, carrying sugar, general cargo and eleven passengers from Singapore to New York, perhaps no man was more envied by his fellow crewmen than Willem Marie Louis Van Rie, the ship's radio officer. He was a newcomer to the 62-man crew, son of the headmaster of a Roman Catholic school in Holland, married (18 months ago to the daughter of a leather manufacturer), a prospective father. Moreover, handsome Willem Van Rie had something that most sailors can only dream about as they toss in their lonely bunks on the heaving seas: a pretty...
...went down, looked at the gaping holes in the starboard side; they ranged down as far as 46 ft. Lloyd Deir decided the team would need a prefabricated patch to cover the holes. It would have to be of three-eighths-inch steel, 20 ft. by 30 ft., weighing eleven tons. Deir and the others crouched on the deck, drew diagrams in chalk. "We all pitched in," says Cook Henley Doughtie, "but you can't really help Lloyd Deir. He's the kind of guy that wants to do everything himself...
During Liu's absence in Russia, where he was both bored and homesick, Mao and eleven other comrades founded the Chinese Communist Party. On his return from Russia Liu promptly joined, and for the next 20 years he worked as a Red labor organizer-a job that occasionally landed him in prison. In 1934, when Mao led the Red army in its famed, 6,000-mile Long March from southern Kiangsi to the caves of Yenan in northern China, Organizer Liu went underground, remained behind as a Communist agent in Kuomintang territory...
...only surprise of the still young season was at Philadelphia, where Steve Sebo's Penn Quakers pulled a mild up-set over defending champion Dartmouth. This win and Penn's non-Ivy win in its opener against Lafayette make the Quaker eleven a definite favorite for the crown...
Fighting back from a 1-0 deficit at intermission, the varsity soccer team put on a determined second-half drive and defeated a stubborn Boston University eleven, 4 to 1, yesterday in a home contest...