Word: elevens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Under these laws, without court pressure, three cities (Winston-Salem, Charlotte, Greensboro) integrated the Deep South's first eleven Negro pupils in the fall...
...Editor Herbert Brucker in the Saturday Review, "will the cost squeeze continue its ravages until even those newspapers that enjoy a monopoly can no longer survive?" At last week's A.N.P.A. convention, no one had the answer. And the number of newspapers kept going down: in the last eleven months competitive papers had sold out to leave Tampa, Grand Rapids, New Orleans, Cincinnati and Charlotte, with a combined population of 2,450,000, as monopoly towns...
...native boat and head into the jungle. One is a priest, another a former German army captain, who subsists mainly on the bitterness of his country's defeat. There is a French Jew at the end of his rope, a money-adoring Belgian, who is accompanied by his eleven-year-old deaf-mute daughter and the French prostitute he is engaged to marry. With them goes the commander of the soldiers, fleeing a situation beyond his control...
...contests of the season, the varsity sailing team will face eleven other schools in the Eastern Dinghy Championships tomorrow and Sunday at Annapolis...
Calvin plus Savonarola. There Hung set up regal headquarters and proclaimed: "The New Jerusalem ft the present Nanking." The advance guard of his army rolled to within 100 miles of Peking but never captured the Manchu capital. For the next eleven years Hung's Nanking was ruled with the puritanical fanaticism of Calvin's Geneva and Savonarola's Florence. The decapitated heads of the Decalogue-breakers hung above the city's gates. Adulterers were wrapped in oil-soaked cloth, and set aflame. Hung himself maintained a harem that grew to 88 wives and concubines, but defended...