Word: boye
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Then began the long wait for salvation. For some, the waiting hours became a time of prayer. Nuns missing pieces of their habits, including one who replaced her coif with a towel, quietly fingered beads. A group gathered around a young boy they remembered later only as Peter. Unable to find his father and mother, he went to his knees and said the rosary aloud. Six young girls sat together on the canted deck and sang to keep up spirits. Another circle told jokes. Mrs. Sam Frlekin of San Pedro, Calif, grabbed a rail she was to clutch for almost...
Politely, but in some confusion, the young man's sister informed him that she had no idea what he was talking about. "But don't you understand," he persisted, "that when a girl goes out with a boy alone anything might happen...
...labor force-are unemployed. In summer in 120° heat, millions of city workers go without water because they cannot afford to buy it at one-fifth of a cent a glass. In Calcutta (pop. 2,568,000) it is still cheaper to hire a man or a boy to pull a cart than to hire a bullock, and thousands of people sleep on the streets every night...
Chasing Whales. Manjiro was the fisherman son of an impoverished Japanese widow. In the feudal Japan of his day, a boy of such low caste could hope for nothing except a life of toil and a full belly each day if he was lucky. But Manjiro was luckier than that. In 1841, when he was 14, the small fishing boat on which he worked was carried out to sea by a storm and drifted to an uncharted island...
...isolated little family. He ran down rabbits and treed squirrels for the table. He helped keep coons out of the corn patch, and when a raging she-bear made for little brother, Old Yeller pitched into her with yelp and fang and held her at bay until the boy was rescued. He saved Travis from a herd of killer hogs, proved again and again that when the chips are down a dog's character can't be gauged by his conformation...