Word: boyness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...member of the Cambridge Council of Boy Scouts, Bruckner organized the project to fulfill one of his requirements to become an Eagle Scout, and also to educate the community...
...Justice Department decided to make McDonnell Douglas a whipping boy ? or did the company knowingly supply machine tools to a Chinese cruise missile factory? It'll probably be up to the courts to decide the answer, following Justice's decision to indict the company Tuesday for violating its export license by supplying sophisticated equipment that it allegedly knew would be used for military purposes. "McDonnell Douglas claims that a Justice Department, under pressure from Republicans to get tough on China, is picking on the wrong target here," says TIME correspondent Viveca Novak. "But the government wouldn?t proceed unless...
...seemed to loom over every traffic intersection. Instead, less threatening pictures of Assad's son and heir apparent Bashar, 34, decorate billboards and shopwindows from the Damascus suq to the Mediterranean coast. The favorite depicts Assad in an almost holy trinity with Bashar and Basil, Assad's idealized eldest boy and chosen successor until his car-crash death in 1994. Syrians are calling the ubiquitous montage Father, Son and Holy Ghost...
...minefield at some cousins standing on another ridge in the family village of Majdal Shams, under Israeli army control for 32 years. Holding up a battery-powered megaphone, he yelled out greetings and asked for the latest news. "I've been doing this since I was a boy," Khalil explains. "This is how I told our relatives that my mother had died." But such is the unending anguish of perpetual separation from loved ones that words don't come easily from across the "shouting valley." Khalil's favorite uncle is crying, it seems, and unable to yell anything back...
...deranged mountain-man image he inhabits in the public's mind. He is, for the most part, affable, polite and sincere. It would almost be easy to forget that he mailed or delivered at least 16 package bombs and then logged the results with the glee of a little boy tearing the wings off a fly. Over the course of 18 years, the Unabomber killed three people and wounded 23 more...