Word: eleventh
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...enigmatic, controlling father, who, we learn early on, was an apparent suicide during the author's late teens. Now in her forties, Bechdel has gained a strong reputation for her comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For, a long-running weekly strip currently up to its eleventh collected edition. For Fun Home, her first long-form work, Bechdel has created a surprisingly sophisticated memoir that subjects her own life to the close reading one would dedicate to a work of literary fiction...
...adventures that day are proved by the hoofprint, sharp and clear, that Buraq left on the Rock beneath the sacred Dome in the center of Al-Quds, called Jerusalem by the infidels and Zionists, whose torments in the furnaces of Jahannan are well described in the seventh and eleventh and fiftieth of the suras of the Book of Books...
...movie-tie-in music video that doesn’t suck. Every other rapper who decides to promote a movie with a video seems to believe that “thou shalt splice together a lame performance scene with random clips from thy film” is the lost eleventh commandment, but not the King of the South...
...series of eleventh-hour negotiations last month, Congress extended the expiration of key sections of the U.S.A. Patriot Act from Dec. 31 until Feb. 3 to allow more time to debate controversial provisions, including those that empower the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to demand patron information from libraries. Harvard’s Senior Director of Federal and State Relations, Kevin Casey, wrote in an e-mail that the extension, which Congress passed Dec. 22, was an encouraging sign for members of the Harvard community previously critical of the Patriot Act’s civil-liberties provisions...
...Democrats' few quibbles with the record of Judge John Roberts as he was being considered for chief justice, Alito has a four-lane highway of writings: opinions on the Commerce Clause; the First Amendment (free speech, establishment clause and free exercise clause); the Fourth, Eighth and Eleventh amendments; and the Fourteenth Amendment (procedural due process and substantive due process). Oh, and then there are his writings on administrative law, criminal law, immigration, the False Claims Act, the Freedom of Information Act, and securities and prison litigation...