Word: keeper
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...great numbers included in these ranks leave many in the battle to the top. One of the few truly B.M.O.C.'s is the modest caretaker of the LSU pet Tiger (18 years old). He feeds the Tiger and drives him to distant games. Everyone loves the caretaker. When the keeper and the Tiger were in a traffice accident this last fall, over 2,000 alumni wrote in sympathy. Only 500 were directly addressed to the Tiger, giving the B.M.O.C. an obvious edge...
...town. At the tavern called Swyndlestock, they ordered wine, but when John de Croydon brought it to them, they decided that it was no good. De Croydon said it was; the scholars said it wasn't. To emphasize their point, they threw it in the tavern keeper's face. With that gesture-just 600 years ago-began the bloodiest town-and-gown riot in the history of Oxford...
...Contest Cheater. The son of a Russian-born Bronx cigar-store keeper, Matusow emerged from World War II as a staff sergeant. He was intrigued by Communist ideas, mainly insofar as they concerned male-female relationships. In 1947 he joined the party. He was not a success : his one minor triumph as a Communist eventually helped get him kicked out of the party...
...superstitious Burma, where heavenly portents are eagerly watched for, a visiting 67-man good-will cultural mission from Red China paid a call on the Rangoon Zoo. Anxious to impress the mission with the atmosphere of peaceful coexistence that pervades his particular domain, the zoo keeper thrust his arm into the cage of his gentlest lion. The lion promptly bit the intruding hand, and was driven off only by shots from the security police...
Hours later a teahouse-keeper on the mountaintop heard cries for help and called the detective. With only damp towels as protection against the sulphur fumes, Detective Tomosaburo Suzuki and seven police volunteers began the rescue. Roped together, choking and almost blinded by the fumes, they let themselves down some 600 feet to an outcropping of rock on the very edge of the crater. The rock had broken the young couple's fall. There, covered with blood and bruises, her ankle smashed, but still unromantically alive, lay the little waitress Setsumi. Beside her, uninjured, was her impulsive lover...