Word: eleventh
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...before adjourning for the week Congress settled one extracurricular issue when Representative Fred Bradley, from Michigan's smelt-fishing eleventh district, revived the prewar fish-gulping contest. The winner: Ohio's 250-lb. Representative Clarence Brown, who unseated Former Champion Jesse Wolcott of Michigan. His performance: a claimed total of 51 fried smelts (20-odd by newsmen's count...
...This swift succession of catastrophic events on a steeply mounting gradient inevitably inspires a dark doubt about our future, and this doubt threatens to undermine our faith and hope at a critical eleventh hour which calls for the utmost exertion of these saving spiritual faculties. Here is a challenge which we cannot evade, and our destiny depends on our response...
...Juniors will be gearing their play in preparation for their impending court battle with Yale on March 3, which will be one of the team's more crucial contests. They're seeking their eleventh triumph of the season this afternoon...
...usual with any family getting ready for a trip, there were some eleventh-hour decisions to be made (should they take the crown along?-they decided against it). But at long last everything was packed and ready. Aunts, uncles and cousins gathered to kiss the travelers goodbye and neighbors lined the streets to wave them away. An elderly well-wisher (Poet Laureate John Masefield) had even written a little verse...
Last week the Labor Government wiggled out from under its worst labor scare yet. A wildcat strike of about 500 London truck drivers had mushroomed into a walkout of about 40,000 sympathizers and threatened to spread disastrously through the country. The Government got the strike ended in its eleventh day, but it was severely clawed by the wildcatters. So was the strong but unwieldy Transport and General Workers Union, to which most of the strikers belonged. So was London's long-suffering public. The truck drivers had struck in protest against union and government bumbling that had delayed...