Word: eleventh
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...talk between old friends, an angry argument erupted. Contending that immigration laws discriminate against Latino workers, Hispanics asked the group to support repeal of the legislation. At first blacks refused, charging that Latino immigrants take jobs away from poor blacks. Furious, Hispanics threatened to storm out in protest. Only eleventh- hour diplomacy by Benjamin L. Hooks, executive director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, coaxed the Latinos back to the table...
Last week the verbal posturing gave way to desperate, eleventh-hour arm- twisting and compromises, as House Democratic leaders scrambled to find the votes they need to override a possible presidential veto. It was a spectacle the Republicans enjoyed. "The Democrats are not going to get the votes they need, and that will finish off civil rights for this year," crowed G.O.P. whip Newt Gingrich. Privately, civil rights lobbyists acknowledged that Gingrich was right...
That end came in the bottom of the eleventh inning of the night cap, when Dartmouth second baseman Tim Carey sent a Pete Rau offering into center field, scoring Cam McKennitt and Peter Hoffman, and giving the Big Green a 4-3 come-from-behind victory...
Junior pitchers Tom Hurley and Rau kept the Dartmouth bats in check throughout the game, enabling the Crimson to break a 2-2 tie in the top of the eleventh. Nick DelVecchio led off the inning with a single to second and went to third on Juan Zarate's single to right two batters later. Freshman Dave Morgan drove DelVecchio in with a sacrifice fly to give the Crimson a short-lived 3-2 lead...
...worked out of three tough jams in the eighth, ninth, and tenth innings, quietly set down the first two batters in the bottom of the eleventh. And he had two strikes on McKennitt before McKennitt lined a 1-2 pitch into left field to keep the Big Green alive...