Word: grammars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Corporal Paul Abel were supply noncoms in C Company of the 796th M.P. Battalion. Frankey, 29, came from Brockton, Mass., had been a lifeguard, and had gone to the University of Wisconsin for two years. Abel was 26, from Bolivar, Mo. A onetime farmhand, he had only been through grammar school, but he knew how to do things in the city: he had once helped Frankey steal a $1,300 radio transmitter from an M-8 U.S. armored car. When they first tried to sell their loot, black-marketeers started them on an easier way to easy money: they introduced...
...duly recorded same. But when Young played back his disc he found it kept him awake. For nearly a whole night he lay fretfully in his bed while his phonograph repeatedly droned Greek. At the end of his Hellenic jam session he did know his word cards and grammar...
...years of crime-which included grand larceny, cattle stealing and blasting an old man with a shotgun and then drowning him in the Mississippi-hefty, hardfisted, 33-year-old Clarence B. ("Hogjaw") Grammar was eminently qualified to be a "shooter." After he began his life term at Parchman in 1940 he demonstrated other good qualities: he beat up fellow prisoners and talked politely to the guards. When he killed a convict who was attacking a prison guard in 1947, the state gratefully released...
...time she got to grammar school, she was a great hulk of a girl whose private preoccupations and unusual size set her apart from the other children. Her mother had always planned on having a dainty little blonde for a daughter. She compromised by spoiling her only child and calling her "Goozie." Her father was an ex-reporter who came back from World War I to work in the Christian Science Church. It was a principle of George Channing's religion to help every individual to realize his own individuality, but in the case of his daughter, that...
...grammar school she kept her fellow pupils in stitches by imitating the teachers. At Aptos Junior High she got herself elected student-body secretary, and caused an uproar among her colleagues by delivering the minutes of each meeting in the precise accents and gestures of the earlier speakers. Her size and her perpetual playacting led most of Carol's schoolmates to think of her as a big, good-natured clown, and Carol played up to the part. But at home, hoping to please Mrs. Channing, Carol did her best to act a dainty, cuddly blonde. Years later, when...