Word: boyness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...next week, I took them back to him,"Osborn said. "He said, `Boy I'm glad you did this.This stuff is acceptable...
...black grandfather's white daddy, when a mischievous impulse overcame me. I went in and asked to speak to the owner. When he appeared--a frail-looking older man--I bellowed, "Cousin!" and told him I had come for my share of the family business. The old boy nearly fainted...
...DADDY'S BOY Bush's name may be his greatest asset, but opponents, both Republicans and Democrats like Al Gore, are preparing to embarrass George "Dubbuya" by wheeling out George Senior at every turn. "You know he was never really one of us" will be the refrain of conservatives, who count the elder's failed promise of "no new taxes" in 1988 as one of the greatest betrayals in Republican Party history. They will also compare George W.'s warm relations with Texas Democrats to his father's "accommodationist" approach toward the other party on Capitol Hill. And they...
When Boris Yeltsin was baptized, a tipsy priest dropped the baby in the font and left him there, struggling for air, until his terrified parents persuaded the priest to fish him out. The priest was not fazed, Yeltsin recalled in his autobiography. "The boy's a fighter [borets in Russian]," he said. "We'll call him Boris." Yeltsin is still a fighter, and still has luck on his side, as the collapse of an attempt to impeach him last weekend shows. He also has cunning, and a formidable state patronage system that works for him, as well as a constitution...
...Gaithersburg, Md., this month's pillar of character is Citizenship. School hallways have names: Responsibility Lane, Trustworthiness Terrace, Caring Corridor. In Tammy Orsini's first-grade class, students assemble in groups to list the traits that make good citizenship, which are then read aloud. Being a good citizen, a boy recites, means "to have character...