Word: booed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Clearly, Scout Finch is no ordinary five-year-old girl-and not only because she amuses herself by reading the financial columns of the Mobile Register, but because her nine-year-old brother Jem allows her to tag along when he and Dill Harris try to make Boo Radley come...
...Boo is the Radley son who has not shown his face outside the creaky old family house for 30 years and more, probably because he has "shy ways," but possibly -an explanation the children much prefer-because his relatives have chained him to his bed. Dill has the notion that Boo might be lured out if a trail of lemon drops were made to lead away from his doorstep. Scout and Jem try a midnight invasion instead, and this stirs up so much commotion that Jem loses his pants skittering back under the fence...
...dowager to ask "Is this the Cousin Joshua who was locked up for so long?" And it is what compels Lawyer Atticus Finch, the children's father, to defend a Negro who is charged with raping a white woman. The rape trial, Jem's helling, and even Boo Radley are deeply involved in the irregular and very effective education of Scout Finch. By the time she ends her first-person account at the age of nine, she has learned that people must be judged, but only slowly and thoughtfully...
...Squeals. As he went on, some of the throng of newsmen booed him. Khrushchev shouted: "I have already been informed that Chancellor Adenauer sent here some of those bastards we didn't finish off at Stalingrad ! We hit them so hard we put them ten feet underground, right off! If you boo us and attack us again, look out! We will hit you so hard there won't be a squeal out of you." Someone cried: "Is this a press conference or a propaganda meeting?" With a triumphant wave of his fist, Khrushchev shouted back: "Propaganda!" Then...
...Washington newsmen in his entourage. His appearance in Candlestick Park brought a standing ovation from the 43,000 fans, normally a crusty lot. Minutes later when California's own Democratic Governor Edmund ("Pat") Brown stood up, no one else did, and the fans let out a deep-throated "BOO-OO-OO."* The players seemed to feel the same way. Nixon, a sports-page reader who knows the major leagues, made himself at home in locker room and dugout, kidded Giant First Baseman Willie McCovey about the weight he had to sweat off, posed for photographers with Negro Slugger Willie...