Word: elevens
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Prohibition days, Pisano saw to it that the Tammany Hall wigwams were plentifully supplied with needled beer and hijacked hooch). But there were nasty rumors that Augie was a finger man. In 1957, he and Frank Costello had a couple of friendly drinks together at the Waldorf just eleven hours before a bullet parted Costello's thinning hair and almost put him permanently out of circulation. Five months later, Albert Anastasia was shot down in a barber's chair-just a few days after dining with Pisano...
...Kabul, Moscow's aid has a more pleasing and dramatic look. On Russian-paved streets, Soviet-made taxis dart in and out of the traffic of laden camels and horse-drawn carriages. Over the city looms an eleven-story mechanized silo with a bakery attached where Russian experts supervise the mass production of bread and its delivery throughout the city by a fleet of Russian trucks. Some $300 million in Soviet grants and loans provide Afghanistan with oil-storage tanks, power plants, factories and a direct radiotelephone link with Moscow. Today, fully half of Afghanistan's trade...
...going home. This farcical filibuster has ended." So said United Steelworkers' President David J. McDonald last week as he and his aides broke off Manhattan negotiations with management on the eleven-week-old steel strike, left for Pittsburgh. Said McDonald: "The industry has not offered one cent. You cannot bargain with a stone wall...
Quarterback Ted Halaby led the team to an early 6-0 lead, as he scored in the first quarter on a 31-yard play. From there, the Naval Station eleven managed to contain the Crimson's hard-running quartet in the backfield for the rest of the half. The J.V.'s went on to further scoring in the second half and held the visitors scoreless until Harvard had gained its total...
...then, however, it was too late; the J.V. team was home safe with a 34-6 win, thanks to its 20 points in the last quarter. The Naval Station eleven was hampered throughout the game by numerous fumbles caused either by the wet conditions or hard-hitting Crimson linemen--or both...