Word: boye
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Child Prodigy. In Danbury, Conn., firemen answered a false alarm, nabbed a four-year-old boy, who promptly punched one of them in the eye, brought out the rest of the department with another alarm, and escaped in the confusion...
Some Romans laughed at this old joke last week. But buxom, 19-year-old Annamarie Proietti was too angry to smile. Annamarie is a waitress from Rome's Communist-filled slums who last week slipped off to swarming, breezy Ostia for an afternoon on the beach with her boy friend Mario. "We were lying there in the sun talking," she told a reporter later, "when somebody tapped me on the shoulder and said, 'Where do you think you are -in your bedroom?' There, leaning over us, was an ugly, sweating flatfoot with a big mustache. 'Beat...
...people. He displayed wild impatience, touching humility, arrogance, humor, vast learning and vast interests. His remarks touched on public morals, and public manners, stone masonry, weaving, women, Communism and military history. At one point he said: "I am sorry to admit I have never been a Boy Scout." He makes up for that lack by trying to do a good deed a minute...
...came last on the program, and by that time most of the opposition to Louis St. Laurent had faded away. After playing coy for two days, Nova Scotia Premier Angus L. Macdonald withdrew. Health Minister Paul Martin reluctantly got on the St. Laurent bandwagon. The Peck's Bad Boy of the Liberal Party, onetime Air Minister Charles Gavan ("Chubby") Power, never had a chance, and wound up with just 56 votes...
...could barely see the shaft as he hurled it 165 ft. 1 in. It was getting on towards midnight, and Mathias had only the 1,500-meter run left to do. If he could make it in anything like decent time, the championship was his. But could he? The boy from Tulare, Calif. (pop. 12,000) was weary, and showing...