Word: jem
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Latin for twins. Spacemen pronounce it jem...
Clearly, Scout Finch is no ordinary five-year-old girl-and not only because she amuses herself by reading the financial columns of the Mobile Register, but because her nine-year-old brother Jem allows her to tag along when he and Dill Harris try to make Boo Radley come...
...probably because he has "shy ways," but possibly -an explanation the children much prefer-because his relatives have chained him to his bed. Dill has the notion that Boo might be lured out if a trail of lemon drops were made to lead away from his doorstep. Scout and Jem try a midnight invasion instead, and this stirs up so much commotion that Jem loses his pants skittering back under the fence...
...anything has a streak-a peculiar streak, or a morbid streak, or one involving a little ladylike tippling at Lydia Pinkham bottles filled with gin. The Finch family streak is a good deal more serious -it is an overpowering disposition toward sanity. This is the flaw that makes Jem interrupt the boasting of a lineage-proud dowager to ask "Is this the Cousin Joshua who was locked up for so long?" And it is what compels Lawyer Atticus Finch, the children's father, to defend a Negro who is charged with raping a white woman. The rape trial, Jem...
General Cemal Gursel (pronounced Jem-fl/ Goor-sell) is a professional soldier whose troops affectionately call him Cemal Aga (Big Brother Cemal). Silver-haired. scrub-mustached and corpulent (5 ft. 10 in., more than 200 Ibs.), he was born of a conservative, middle-class family in Eastern Anatolia 65 years ago, was commissioned a lieutenant in the Ot toman army at 19. As a World War I artillery officer, he fought the British at the Dardanelles and in Palestine...