Word: elevens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tears said it better. In the coffin lay the patched body of 26-year-old In Ho Oh, onetime interpreter for U.S. troops in Korea, onetime honor student at Seoul's National University and currently enrolled as a University of Pennsylvania political science exchange student. An eleven-member teen-aged Negro gang had pummeled In Ho Oh to death with a blackjack, a lead pipe and hard-toed shoes, while looking for the admission price of a 35? neighborhood dance...
...Violent Action committee also sponsored a demonstration in Nevada last summer, at the Camp Mercury testing grounds. Here, in the same spirit of Gandhian civil disobedience that has guided the crew of the "Golden Rule," eleven people attempted to enter the testing area. They were arrested for trespassing, and given a suspended sentence. Bigelow was a member of this group...
...flop before the U.N. Security Council. Since the U.S. was easily able to prove the safeguards in its "Fail Safe" technique-which prevents any U.S. plane from actually proceeding to a Russian target without personal orders from the President-Russia found no supporting votes for its accusation in the eleven-nation Security Council. Arkady Sobolev was compelled to withdraw his resolution, a display of ineptness rare in recent Soviet diplomacy. ¶By putting too much overt pressure on Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito, Khrushchev last week drove Yugoslavia to a public challenge of Soviet primacy in Eastern Europe (see below...
...median IQ of its students is about 135, but in some classes the average runs to 145 or more. If training brains is what high schools are for, the Bronx school may be the best in the country; in 1956 and 1957, students at "Science" won a total of eleven National Merit Scholarships, more than any other high school in the U.S. This week, when the new batch of National Merit Scholarship awards was announced, the school had seven winners, again led the nation...
...mile four years in a row. The Delany himself set a four-year record for collecting relay hardware: ten first-place gold watches. ¶ After watching some older kids try out for the New York City Parks Department's yo-yo championship, Stephen Awerman, an eleven-year-old from Jamaica, L.I., decided that he could hold his own with the big boys. He spun his yo-yo through the required figures-spinner, walking-the-dog, breakaway, over-the-falls, around-the-world, three-leaf-clover, creeper, rock-the-baby-then unreeled 312 loop-the-loops to latch onto...