Word: boye
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...boy or girl that gave the sarcastic account of the dog show in your Feb. 24 issue should be barred from all dog shows for life...
Bursting with fury, Korean newspapers labeled the incident a "vicious lynching," demanded a status-of-forces agreement that would allow Korean courts to try U.S. servicemen. General Decker hastily expressed regret at the treatment given the boy, "even though he was caught in the act of stealing" (a fact most of the Korean newspapers failed to mention), and promised "appropriate action...
...Challenge, on which he flunked out at the $8,000 level when he failed to identify the Shalamar Gardens, he recalls: "The air conditioning in my booth broke down, and I came out, my ears popping, gasping for breath. I was preceded by a ten-year-old boy who used up all the air spelling very long words...
...Education Fun? In his generation at Boston Latin, a public high school that has been one of the most respected secondary schools in the U.S., Marson always practiced what he now preaches. His boys knew precisely what they would get from their round-faced, jovial schoolmaster: hard work and solid teaching in the fundamentals of composition and literature. Marson scoffed at curve-grading (the clod-coddling marking system that is based on the class average), insisted that his boys measure up to definite levels. One bright boy who measured up: Composer Leonard Bernstein, who still talks of Marson...
Disillusion sets in almost with the first broiling Mexican sunrise. Thorn's first hero, a boy browbeaten into memorizing the Old Testament by an evangelist father, says in shame and confusion that he outshot 30 Villistas because "the Lord took hold of me" (actually he hates his father and loathes religion). Another makes it apparent that he charged an almost impregnable position alone because he thought it would look good on his record. A foolish, dull-eyed boy vaulted a gate and opened it under hailing fire because he was too stupid to imagine being shot...