Word: elevens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...test-Polaris was destroyed in the air by the safety officer when it began to fly erratically and its two stages separated prematurely. Departing from the usual hedging, the Navy admitted that the launching was a "complete failure"-but added that it was the first such failure in eleven tries. Actually. Polaris has exploded four times, has been really successful on only three shots...
Kishi would need all his aplomb in the coming month as he tours eleven countries in Europe and the Americas. His object : to gain face for his countrymen, who morbidly nurse a national feeling that Japan, while growing economically strong, is still "the orphan of Asia," disliked by its neighbors, ignored or discounted by the West. Sensitive Japanese are already wincing at the journalists' jeers in England at the discovery that a London public relations firm had been hired to boost the Premier's stock there. Other Japanese fear a disaster like the visit to London of Foreign...
...minutes passed; the star edged closer to the invisible rim of the planet. "No change, no change," chanted Hynek into a tape recorder while an assistant read off the time. "Gosh, there-it seemed to go. It's definitely going, going. It's gone." Eleven minutes and 4.8 seconds later, Regulus reappeared from behind the bright edge of Venus. The star seemed to struggle to get away, clinging for five or six seconds before drifting clear...
...when May 7 rolled around and no erecting had yet begun. Bad weather provided an almost constant impediment, to say nothing of a couple of serious mishaps. Three days before the scheduled opening a downpour was still able to drench everything and everybody; certain facets of the construction were eleven days behind; and the actors had not yet even tested the stage. Failure seemed assured. At 7:30 p.m. on July 9 steamrollers were still operating and workmen were still driving stakes. But at eight o'clock the Governor and other prominent citizens arrived by boat for the formal ribbon...
These two examples suggest that there was probably as much hysteria among McCarthy's foes as among his followers. In a remarkably well-balanced and even-tempered book. Author Rovere (for the past eleven years Washington correspondent for The New Yorker) notes that "McCarthyism was a bipartisan doctrine." He blames not only some Republicans for tolerating Joe so long but some Democrats (notably Senators Paul Douglas and John Kennedy) for not speaking out against him. Rovere might have added that those who did speak out against McCarthy sometimes helped him by exaggerating his importance. To Rovere himself. McCarthy remains...