Word: four-year-old
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...calls such activities "all the nice things that people like me do," because she finally discovered that her work was more than a genteel social obligation. One night six years ago she received a call from a friend, whose secretary at that moment was in a state of hysteria in a phone booth opposite San Francisco's Juvenile Hall. The woman's four-year-old child had wandered away from nursery school and had been taken by police to the hall, where his frantic parents found him screaming in an iron-barred crib covered with fishnet. The authorities...
Looking Up. The book has the quaint fascination of an Horatio Alger tale. Walter Joseph Hickel was born at Ellinwood, Kans., in 1919, the son of a German-American tenant farmer. As a four-year-old, he scrambled to the top of the farm's windmill to get a better view of the world. Rushing to rescue Wally, his father shouted, "Keep looking up! Keep looking up!" The advice stuck...
...Ohio, a four-year-old girl was dressed in her nightgown, ready for bed. Then she decided to take a last look at her pet bird. She clambered to the top of the kitchen range for a closer view, nudged the gas burner and her nightgown all but exploded in flames. It took 97 days and eleven skin grafts before she could leave the hospital. Even so she was luckier than many others. The Government estimates that 3,000 to 5,000 Americans die each year from burns, many associated with flammable clothing and interior furnishings. Another...
...which have been operated on for bone chips, he is one of the league's most notorious streak hitters. Five years ago, for example, he set some kind of hot-cold record by collecting nine straight hits on one occasion-and striking out seven times in a row on another. "When I'm hitting," he says, "it doesn't matter who's pitching. When I'm not, my four-year-old...
Spoofing honorary degrees is the four-year-old avocation of John Bear, 33, a freelance writer, erstwhile adman, and co-inventor of the once popular Beethoven sweatshirt. Having sweated out a real doctorate in communications at Michigan State University, he found himself feeling less than charitable each June as he read about such instant academics as Dr. Captain Kangaroo, Dr.Bob Hope and the late Dr. Dario Toffenetti, a Manhattan restaurateur honored by the University of Idaho for "promoting . . . the Idaho potato...