Word: boye
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...they tell me America is a nice place." Theodosios Kaffas is determined to make it so. A barber who had to go out of business, a restaurant cook who couldn't earn more than $300 a month, he has dreamed of going to America ever since he was a boy. Now he is 36. "Argos is a good place for those who own fields and orange groves," says Kaffas, "but the workers are better paid in America. I want a better life for my family. I want to educate my children...
...never talk about Cuba now," he says. "I'm tired of revolution and politics. I don't want problems. I work. I make good money. No complaints. My two kids like it here. My little boy who is eleven hardly speaks Spanish. This country is different from any country in the world. Everybody is nice...
...there. No stage. He walked, liked the place, sent for his family of six back in Ontario. My father's father, being the eldest son, shepherded them all safely to their new home. The family started a newspaper, helped build the town. My father recalled as a young boy being loaded onto the handlebars of his father's bicycle and taken to the edge of town where they stalked prairie chickens, shot them and brought them home for dinner. They would ride back with the evening breeze fresh in their nostrils and the rolling land washed...
...tipped academy officials, who pressured Donnelly to resign but did not discipline her bunkmate. According to the academy's account, he had burrowed deep under the covers and could not be identified. Said a spokesman: "We knew only that he had blond hair. When we called in her boy friend, who has blond hair, he denied the incident." But Donnelly insists that everyone knew his identity and that officials pushed her into accepting a deal: if she quit, Lewis would be allowed to graduate...
...born in relative poverty, the son of an unassuming parson who died when the boy was seven. He was thereupon adopted by his childless uncle Thomas, a Gargantuan export-import trader (tea, codfish, whale oil) who had built the first mansion on Beacon hill. Uncle Thomas put young Hancock through Harvard, class of '54, and then eight years in the counting room of the House of Hancock. When Thomas Hancock died, he left his 27-year-old nephew a fortune of ?80,000, the largest in New England...