Word: baa
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...expansionary process, the Boston Athletic Association (BAA), which oversees the Marathon, seems to have forgotten where its home is and has trampled on some of its local supporters...
Each year, the BAA must handle hundreds of applications from media groups around the world looking to come to the Hub for Marathon Monday. Understandably, some newspapers, radio and television units must be refused credentials; but one of the BAA's criteria for who will get those precious press passes severely tarnishes the glitter of the Boston event...
...sheep baaaaed a little, so he gave every fourth sheep a hot apple and told them to share the delicacies with their fellow sheep who had cold apples. And the clever fox called the idea 'The second comprehensive plan for the sheep.' The sheep staged a baa-in outside the fox's den, and then went on eating the cold apples and being sheep again...
From 1936 to 1951, Bill Wicklund was a regular at the Boston Marathon, running in 14 of the BAA classics during those years. Yesterday, at age 71, Wicklund was again in Boston--but this time just as a spectator...
Perhaps they reminded the author of his own emotional and cultural wrenchings. Wilson seems to think so. He writes that "even when they appear most impersonal, his political and imperial concepts spring from his own agonising sense of personal isolation." When Baa, Baa, Black Sheep first appeared in 1888, readers were not aware that this story of a boy separated from his parents was largely autobiographical. Until he was nearly six, Kipling lived in India, where his father taught art and eventually became curator of a museum at Lahore. Even on a teacher's low pay the family lived...