Word: boyness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...loved Rimbaud especially because I was a young girl, he was a young boy, and I had no boyfriend, so I would just imagine he was my boyfriend. When I discovered him, I loved everything about him. His youth, his beauty, his language, his irreverence, his spiritual quest that had nothing to do with religion, the way he modernized poetry, everything...
...After all those years in Yankees pinstripes, what did it feel like when you first put on a Dodgers uniform? -Mike McGillicutty, Echo Park, Calif.You don't feel it until you look in the mirror and all of a sudden people are starting to make comments that "boy, you don't look the same." I knew what the Dodgers uniform represented, as a kid growing up in Brooklyn. But it certainly felt strange...
BIKESMITH Work stopped at the headquarters of Koga, the high-end-bicycle manufacturer, during the sprint event at the 2004 Athens Olympics. The Netherlands-based company had sponsored star cyclist Theo Bos, and even watching on TV, managing director Wouter Jager, 48, knew his boy was struggling...
Science-fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke's lifelong fascination with the myriad possibilities of space exploration helped ring in the space age. Lured as a boy by sci-fi magazines and his own homemade telescope, Clarke studied physics before turning to writing full time. Among the advances he foresaw in more than 100 works: space travel, communications satellites and computers. His writing, most famously the futuristic novel 2001: A Space Odyssey, often came back to the theme of humankind gaining enlightenment from contact with alien life. He believed E.T.s would send a sign, noting last year, "We have...
...onto the diamond this spring. “We’re being very careful with him and we’re not sure if he’ll be back this year,” Walsh said. “I thought with [Perlman] and Malley coming in, boy...we’re going to be ok. But they’re not here, they’re not healthy, so you got to deal with what you got.”The entire pitching staff will be tested early against nationally ranked opponents. In these games, the Crimson...