Word: boys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...were beginning to turn away from books, fidget in their seats, wonder if the 3 p.m. dismissal bell would ever ring. In fifth-grade geography on the second floor, the teacher thought that the room was getting too warm. Said she: 'Why don't some of you boys open the windows?" In fourth-grade arithmetic, a boy blurted: "Sister, I smell smoke." Smoke began to seep under classroom doors, through open transoms. A fire alarm clanged. The fourth-grade teacher opened the door, found the corridor full of smoke, slammed the door shut. She told the children...
...looked here. She got a little burned on the side." Another screamed at his wife: "Why didn't you keep her home today?" A nurse came out of a ward packed with children with burns, broken limbs, asked gently: "Is anybody looking for a little boy wearing a boy scout ring...
...tutelage, put some power into his scrambling game, upset both Anderson and the U.S.'s Alex Olmedo in the New South Wales championships, and went to the finals before losing to Cooper. Cried the Sydney Daily Telegraph: "A tennis prodigy." Headlined the Melbourne Sun News-Pictorial: THIS U.S. BOY COULD TAKE DAVIS CUP FROM US. But in the Victoria championships last week, Butch pulled a thigh muscle, failed to survive a third-round match with formidable Neale Fraser...
...year: the Bomarc antiaircraft missile (457,000 kits) and the Talos missile (443,000 kits sold since its October introduction). All are intended to be "tough but rewarding to builders from age six on up." Surprisingly, adults make up 40% of the kit market. Says Glaser: "We lose most boys at about age 15; they turn to other hobbies such as girls. But then they marry, and as soon as they have a six-year-old boy we get them back...
...this scene it is actually the boy Yurii Andreievich Zhivago's mother who is being buried. His millionaire father has committed suicide, and Yurii is being brought up as a ward of the well-to-do Gromeko family in a gracious world of chamber-music concerts, fancy-dress balls and lofty ideals. His teen-age partner, prim and proper Antonina (Tonia) Gromeko, is destined to be his bride...