Word: elevens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...worked furiously at our painting, but nothing happened. We bummed around the country and brought our works back to New York galleries, but no one noticed our efforts. The academic painters seemed to have full control, and any deviator or nonconformist was an outsider, thus rejected. After eleven years of this struggle, I gave up to try my hand at ideas I wanted to develop in small towns in California, but Pollock remained in New York and continued his fight against academism...
...eleven crewmen of the 6-29 Enola Gay stood silently in the early-morning darkness, eyes fixed on a solemn, balding Navy captain with a staggering burden: two cans filled with 137.3 Ibs. of uranium 235. At 0245 hours on Aug. 6, 1945, the Enola Gay lifted heavily from the long runway at Tinian. Within minutes. Captain William Sterling Parsons climbed into the stuffy bomb bay. Thus began five fateful hours in Liman history...
...uranium masses. One mistake could have vaporized Deke Parsons, the eleven crewmen and the Enola...
...sorts and all nations converged on the scene. The Irish ferryboat, Naomh Eanna, put ashore 300 holiday excursionists at Galway and headed out into the Atlantic. A Canadian destroyer and an Irish corvette turned their prows to the disaster area. The Jules Verne radioed: "We now have aboard eleven bodies: seven women, two men, a little girl and a little...
White Wilderness (Buena Vista) is the awesome product of three arduous summers and winters spent by eleven Walt Disney photographers in the Canadian and Alaskan far north. Their cameras caught enough to make any naturalist drool with delight. A polar bear plunges into the icy Arctic seas to give vain chase to a frisky seal; cocky bear cubs attack a one-ton walrus and drive him from his perch; a wolverine, nastiest of all far northern beasts, shrugs off the dive-bomb attacks of an osprey to climb a tall tree and devour a fledgling. Most impressive scene...