Word: boye
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that have terrorized so many millions of Americans were continuing across the nation. In one 72-hour period, eleven persons were killed in Atlanta, six by gunfire. In Detroit Beach, Mich., a woman watching her four-year-old grandson at play saw him stabbed to death by a teenage boy who was apparently after the 40¢ that the child had in his pocket. In New York City this spring, police charged a gang of six teen-agers?one of whom was 13?with murdering three elderly and penniless men by asphyxiation. One man died with his prayer shawl stuffed into...
After several meetings, Elizalde and Nance flew into the secret valley of the Tasaday. High on a cliff, in a cave about 50 ft. wide and 30 ft. deep, small groups sat talking by several fires. Children climbed a smooth rock and laughed as they slid down. One boy flew a pet butterfly on a string, like a kite. The floor of the cavern was regularly swept with branches, but no improvements had been made...
Seated in his cell, the prisoner has two hours to review his life. He pans it. As a boy, Boris has a vision of Death. The embryo philosopher immediately penetrated to the heart of the mystery. What happens after life? He demanded. For example, are there girls? As Boris matures he embraces three things: cowardice, ineptitude and women. "My room at midnight," a countess breathes in his ear. "Perfect," returns the hero. "Will you be there...
...creation, Bella Gross, drawn from The Bronx immigrant neighborhoods where he grew up, appeared in innumerable cartoons and New Yorker stories and remains the model for an enduring comic genre: the put-upon Jewish girl who is forever hounded by her mother to get out and "catch a nice boy, a doctah...
There are some truths that even a strong man should not have to bear, and one of them may be the fact that Christopher Robin's mother always wanted a baby girl named Rosemary, not a boy at all. For nine years she dressed Winnie-the-Pooh's young master in girl's clothes and left his hair long. "I remained a boy," Christopher Robin now confesses. "But only just. I was one of her few failures...