Word: boye
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When he got back home to Independence after 31,500 miles of campaigning, 64-year-old Harry Truman admitted that he was worn to a frazzle. But his manner was cockily confident. He called himself "a country boy come home," and he publicly proclaimed his faith in his lucky political star...
...success as a Manhattan textile importer: the Oppenheimers had a country house at Islip, N.Y., a sunny, nine-room apartment on Riverside Drive with three Van Gogh originals hanging in the living room. Julius doted on his son, took him to Europe four times and asked only that the boy be "a decent character...
...possible to think something rude, harsh or improper, but never possible to say it. "My life as a child," Robert recalls, "did not prepare me in any way for the fact that there are cruel and bitter things." He remembers himself unfondly as "an unctuous, repulsively good little boy." The trouble, he thinks, was that his home offered him "no normal, healthy way to be a bastard...
Tallbacks Jim Noonan, Phil Bolster, and Jim Kenary were hitting their targets consistently, with Kenary looking particularly effective. The Worcester boy now appears to be recovered from an injury that has hampered him this fall, and he may make his 1948 doubt as a passer in Palmer Stadium...
President Conant in his recently published books, Education in a Divided World," has put forward the suggestion that every boy of 18 should be enrolled in a national militia for 10 years, and that summer camps be set up to train 10,000,000 youths every year...