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Word: boye (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...think you are? Mr. Wonderful? "Tuneless Tiger" indeed! Fabian is a nice, handsome boy and comes from a good family. I shall return...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 17, 1959 | 8/17/1959 | See Source »

Screeching Halt. In Charlotte, N.C., sneaking out of Johney's Hobby Shop with a radio he had just pilfered, a young boy was caught when the shop's pet parrot squawked: "Boy stealing . . . boy stealing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 17, 1959 | 8/17/1959 | See Source »

...lightning. Boy, do I remember that lightning. I never exactly heard the thunder; I felt it. I remember falling through hail, and that worried me; I was afraid the hail would tear the chute. Sometimes I was falling through heavy water-I'd take a breath and breathe in a mouthful of water. Sometimes I had the sensation I was looping the chute. I was blown up and down as much as 6,000 feet at a time. It went on for a long time, like being on a very fast elevator, with strong blasts of compressed air hitting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: The Nightmare Fall | 8/17/1959 | See Source »

...organized." He began walking a procedural-square search, found himself after two 90° turns on a country road. A dozen cars passed him as he stood on the road, wet, bloody, vomit-stained and haggard, and waving feebly. Finally a car slowed ("Stop," a small boy cried to his father, "there's a jet pilot standing in the road!"), took him to a country store, where he collapsed on the floor while waiting for an ambulance to carry him to a hospital in Ahoskie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: The Nightmare Fall | 8/17/1959 | See Source »

...flew 100 ft., its dome light and driver cop left largely undamaged. Across the street from the truck, the Coca-Cola Bottling Co. fell into a level pile of rubble. The Gerretsen store's stock of bolts and nuts sprayed like fragmentation shards. One eight-year-old boy was carried to the hospital with a finger-sized piece of steel driven into his brain. The only traces to be found of Traffic Policeman DeSues were his uniform buttons and a key-filled pants pocket, which lay scattered along the gutter in the next block...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DISASTERS: Overnight Parking | 8/17/1959 | See Source »

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