Word: hooded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Recently he found 14 mentally deficient children, wards of the city, tied with ropes around their necks in a firetrap farmhouse. The children were removed to a state school and to foster homes. Last month, when Selby learned that Philadelphia's summer music center, Robin Hood Dell, was close to bankruptcy, he raised $56,000 in 22 days...
...with class"), persuades her to take charge of a pint-sized guttersnipe whom he forces to pose as his son. Jean turns out to be an aspiring singer who can wiggle her assets on a nightclub floor-and switch right back to being as prim as Little Red Riding Hood. Douglas' problem: to go straight for her sake without inviting trouble from his arch rival, Pretty Willie (Cesar Romero...
...looking for flaws, profanely praying that hidden parts would function smoothly. At Driver Johnnie Parsons' station in the pits the mechanic could hardly believe his eyes. Parsons' bright yellow Wynn's Special (representing an investment of $35,000) looked sleek and fit, but under the unstrapped hood the mechanic had found a telltale trickle of water seeping out of a crack in a spanking-new cylinder block. There was no time to change engines, so the mechanic did the next best thing: he filled the crack with metal sealer, slapped a coat of paint over it, then...
Three other Graduate School students won Honorable Mention. Jess B. Bessinger 4G for "Robin Hood in the Forest of Philology: The Ballads After Ritson"; Geoffrey B. Riddehough 1G for "Trogon Isolation in Greek Drama"; and Edward E. Hunt, Jr. 4G for "The Biological Study of Human Evolution...
...burnish." Journalist Johnston's substance is the old story of the penniless youth who falls in love with the headman's daughter ("She has the eyes of a gazelle, he thought"), only to find that his suit is hopeless be cause she has been betrothed since child hood. To make matters worse, a tithe-collecting lama visits the valley and de mands a night with gazelle-eyed Veshti...