Word: boye
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Oregon's Democratic Senator Wayne Morse showed up in the same neck of the woods-and led Dulles into one of the most unfortunate remarks of the hearings. Morse, wringing his hands lest "American boys might have to go over there alone," suggested that Britain and France join the U.S. in backing the Eisenhower Middle Eastern resolution. Dulles replied softly: "I hope, before you commit yourself to that proposition, you will give careful consideration to the reception the British and French could get in the Middle East." Then, half-joking and still referring to the low esteem in which...
...reincarnation of the Lord Ramachandra, and I am here to create a new way of life." Police records bore no evidence of this one way or another, but they did show that up to three years ago, the self-appointed god of Mokhimpur had been a messenger boy in the Uttar Pradesh Department of Public Works who had been fired for misbehavior...
...note that he did no research for his little epic, and bases his facts entirely on hearsay. Mr. Royce does not drink. Not much, that is. Well, not a great deal. Mr. Royce was raised on an apple farm, but ran away from home when he was a boy. He served two years in the Army and five years at Harvard, and has not worked since he graduated. Nor, for that matter, did he before...
...etched limestone, knobby sandstone, lava, etc. Raisz thinks highly of this map. He tried to sell a copy of it to a student in History I62 (Westward Movement) who kept insisting he only wanted a map of the Pacific Northwest. Raisz found this hard to believe, but gave the boy what he wanted, anyway...
With no more than this true-life incident as a dramatic situation, the relationships among boy, father and mother (Kim Hunter) are brilliantly illuminated. In answer to his complaints about his father, his mother pleads, "Give a little. Other people want things too . . . Success takes an awful lot of time." Finally, when the boy bitterly cries that his father doesn't love him, his mother lets him in on how his father feels about him: "Your father once told me that the only thing in this world he really loved...