Word: ginocchio
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...past, a teacher who somehow connected with them. Karen Arnold found this was true of the valedictorians she studied. Principals and parents confirm it. "If you talk with kids, they will tell you about someone who has captured their imagination--gotten hold of them emotionally and intellectually," says Fred Ginocchio, principal of Madison Middle School in Appleton, Wis. He remembers his own third-grade teacher making this kind of breakthrough for him, by reading the autobiography of Black Hawk to the class. "I can picture her still," he recalls. "I was totally taken...
...judges looked upon a certain Shorthorn bull and gasped. His name was Faithful. "Superb," said one. "Unmatched is Faithful." cried another. "Of all the bulls that ever bos has borne there was never a more shapely specimen to gladden human eyes," exclaimed a third. Shortly afterward Senor Bartolome Ginocchio, breeder of fine cattle, looked upon Faithful, and his cockles of heart rose up with pleasure, and straightway there was no thought in him but to have Faithful for his own. So he went to the owner and a bargain was struck. The price was $60,000-the highest price ever...
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