Word: four-year-old
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...Janovsky concentration camp, SS Obersturmführer Gustav Wilhaus used to shoot at prisoners from his office window. Once, to amuse his nine-year-old daughter, he "gave an order to throw two four-year-old children high into the air while he took shots at them. His daughter applauded and yelled: 'Do it again.' He did it again...
Tigers & Drugstores. One child who had stood the trip well and who had no apprehensions at all was four-year-old Claire Fiedler, ready to rejoin her sailor father in Chicago. Associated Pressman Relman Morin interviewed Claire, set his report down in deadpan questions & answers...
...George Lucas of Lafayette, Ind. (1944 pop. 30,746) was judged the Typical American Housewife by a national research organization. Outlines of the Typical American Housewife: she is 28, a solid. ly built brunette, the wife of a sailor, has a six-year-old daughter and a four-year-old son, does all the housework for an eight-room house (where her father-in-law lives), goes shopping every other morning, likes to cook, doesn't like quick-frozen foods, won't use corn syrup to stretch sugar recipes, serves the day's big meal...
...this connection . . . I'd like to correct a misstatement in the TIME article. . . . Your man said legend has it that Milo "lugged a four-year-old cow." That's wrong. Milo toted an ox. Your city man may not know...
Ever since Milo of Crotona, in the 6th Century B.C., lugged a four-year-old cow to a sacrificial altar, farm boys have been trying to duplicate his legendary feat. Rural jokesters long ago figured out how a man might lift better than his weight in beef. If a growing boy lifts a small calf, they say, and keeps lifting it day after day, why shouldn't the grown man eventually be able to lift the full grown cow? For the Borden Co.'s farm-flavored radio show, County Fair, the ancient gag looked good as new. Last...