Word: isn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Quitman County, Miss., where the rich black earth grows tall corn and bumper crops, there lives a Brobdingnagian boy. He stands 7 ft. 7 in his socks, sleeps in a 9-ft. bed, and picks as much as 300 pounds of cotton a day. When he isn't farming, 19-year-old Max Edward Palmer, wearing a little toothbrush mustache, is a freshman at Walnut Consolidated High and plays forward on the basketball team. Last week, he scored all of Walnut's 24 points in the first half, against bewildered Friars Point High. Earlier in the week...
...without being gay. Most Russian drivers operate with one hand on the horn, so the traffic makes up in sound what it lacks in numbers. On the streets the people march along with set faces, grimly determined to get where they are going. Thoughtful observers sometimes wonder why. There isn't any racial discrimination in Moscow, and the sexes are equal. This morning, women were out chipping ice off the streets just like...
...York is a rude city, but it isn't the only one. Moscow's subway, which compares favorably in service with Manhattan's Seventh Avenue line, is just about as crowded in rush hours as is that line's Times Square station. I've occasionally heard someone say 'Sorry' in New York, but not in Moscow. You do hear a lot of stuff, such as 'Citizens, stop shoving,' and 'Citizen, you're standing on my feet...
Voice from the Widely Bimps. When he isn't exploding all over the basketball court, Frank Keaney is a good-natured Irishman who saves old glassware as a hobby. In practice, one of his tricks is to bolt a steel rim inside the baskets, reducing their size from 18 to 15 inches; it made the basket-shooting in the actual game seem easier. While his players romp on the court, Keaney, a Phi Beta Kappa, calls to them in his own curious language, compounded of corny phrases he has coined himself, mixed with Latin or Latin-sounding words. Samples...
...calls for local store managers to hire local help, join Chambers of Commerce, become minor pillars in their respective communities. Harry Greenburg thought the best way to show his stockholders that his good will was more than skin deep was to turn down his stock options. Said Greenburg: "Money isn't everything in the world. I won't eat any more than I'm eating now if I exercise my stock rights...