Word: elevens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...budget and passing a reorganization bill setting up a dozen executive departments to replace 100 assorted agencies, the lawmakers found themselves blizzarded by so many minor bills, chores and diversions that the Fairbanks News-Miner accused the new legislature of "doodling, dawdling and dillydallying." Full of eager novices (only eleven members out of 40 ever served in the old territorial legislature), the house in the past fortnight...
...year. William Wilder's Duo for String Quartet, another example of minimal performance instructions did not quite come off, perhaps because the players did not take full advantage of the near-complete rhythmical freedom they were given. John Cage's Six Melodies for Violin and Keyboard, which employs only eleven sounds, turned out to be a rather lame divertimento, though several Islamic touches near the end provoked cautious amusement...
Today, after selling 50 million records (eleven have topped the 1,000,000 mark), Perry the pro is mainly a solid family man. He lives unostentatiously at Sands Point, L.I., has few cronies and owns but two cars, a Cadillac and a Thunderbird. His wife Roselle, whom he married 25 years ago in Canonsburg, does the cooking; he sometimes dries the dishes. His interests are golf (high 70s) and his three children. Chief entertainment: watching TV while sprawled on a couch in his den, and writing congratulatory telegrams to TV comedians...
...half Irish, half Welsh, and she talked all the time-more than I do now." Pamela's Russian-born father (British Movie Pioneer Sir Isidore Ostrer) was not far behind in his rumpled English. The family stopped talking when Pamela's parents were divorced (she was eleven: "All of a sudden I was sort of grown up"), but her training paid off. Running away from school at twelve, Pamela talked herself into a London movie career, had made her third film when she was married at 16 to Director Roy Kellino (then a cameraman). Later Actor Mason moved...
...almost certainly due to faulty vaccine. But while Type II vaccine is supposed to give 100% protection only against Type II disease, it is claimed to give about 60% protection against Type I also. As hoped, Type I disease began to decline sharply as 205,000 children under eleven took their medicine (it took the riot squad to control the crowds), and there was not a single case of Type II disease...