Word: boye
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Charlie sold 18 people, 14 of them women, half of them young and unattached. Of the four males one was a three-year-old boy. They boarded the Pasado Mañana, ("The Day After Tomorrow," Charlie explained) at San Pedro one morning four weeks ago, and were dismayed...
...police had disappeared from Nanking's streets; many had put on civilian clothes. A wave of looting swept the city. A mob swarmed up the long, fir-tree-lined driveway to President Li's grey brick home. A ragged boy shoved a porcelain sink through a smashed door panel to three of his friends outside. Li's housekeeper helped the looters take out scrolls and furniture, explained: 'The sooner they clean out the place the better. Then I will have peace...
...reached the south bank in the Amethyst's whaler, others swam. Once on the south shore, they crawled into Nationalist territory. Said Heath: "The Reds machine-gunned and shelled us. We lost a couple of chaps that way." With the help of the Amethyst's Chinese mess boy as interpreter, most of the fugitives made it to the railroad, arrived in Shanghai the next...
...high-school faculties, still dubious about mixed classes, are trying to let students make their own decisions-even to chewing gum. One teacher, Tadao Naka-nami, caught a boy chewing gum and bawled him out. The student fired back: "In America the students chew gum." Stymied, the teacher put the issue up to class debate: Was it proper to chew gum in school even if Americans did so? The class long and earnestly debated the issue, then decided it was wrong, ordered the offending boy to apologize...
...lollipops, taffy, gumdrops, and other treasures in shop windows, many of them for the first time in their lives feeling the sweet pangs of choice. In London's Hyde Park, a queue moved forward through the brilliant sunshine as a little slate-roofed kiosk opened for business. One boy unfolded the mystery of Life Savers for his brothers: "There's nothing in them but they're awfully good. You eat them one at a time." A little girl clutched a large Cellophane-wrapped goody as if it were a doll. Explained her father: "She's never...