Word: boye
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mexico villagers hospitalized last week (a ten-year-old boy at Taos, a 37-year-old man at Albuquerque) need not share the fate of the helpless millions slaughtered by bubonic plague in the past. At week's end, both were recovering handily, the boy treated with streptomycin and sulfadiazine, the man with penicillin and aureomycin...
When Negro Heavyweight Ezzard Charles was a young boy in Cincinnati, he wanted to be a fighter like gentlemanly Joe Palooka; later his hero was Joe Louis. The trouble with Ezzard when he finally became a pro: it was a lot easier for him to match his models' modest manners than their crunching punches...
...Speak roughly to your little boy, And beat him when he sneezes; He only does it to annoy, Because he knows it teases...
...various combinations and with a full orchestra. Britten had given the strings comparatively little to do; most of the burden fell on blaring brasses, on rustic horns and bucolic woodwinds. It was rich with unusual effects: while Soprano Frances Yéend sang John Clare's The Driving Boy, the chorus whistled an accompaniment. Even though Britten had barely fussed at all with bridges between song poems, his symphony had a unity of spirit. Fresh, melodic and direct, his Opus 44 seemed to many listeners his best work...
...Small-boy admirers of Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History sometimes call it "the dead zoo." Parents, too, gape and gawk at the floodlit glass cases which the museum describes as its "natural habitat groups." In the shadowy "North American Mammals" wing are windows overlooking a family of grizzly bears dining on ants in Yellowstone National Park, wolves loping after a deer by the glow of northern lights, bull moose fighting in a marsh, and Rocky Mountain goats scrambling sky-high along a cliff...