Word: kidded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...December. First place goes to the Boston Herald for itspicture of a teenager grinning into the camera with a snow shovel in his hand. The cutline reads, "Twelve year old (Name withheld) shows no sign of birth defects as he shovels snow outside his parents home in Mattapan." Attaboy, kid. Second place to the New York Post for its "Sam Sleeps" cover, complete with a photograph of David Berkowitz catching a few z's in the Tombs. Honorable mentions toonumerous to name... --Joseph W. Dalton and Gay W. Seidman
...Brian played really well," Purdy said. "We kid him a lot in practice about being puck shy, but he's like a different goaltender in the games...
...South Boston High School had merely meant a lull in the racial conflict over busing. This year school officials have unplugged the airport metal detectors once used to screen students for weapons, the police have been removed from the halls, and Southie students are at peace. Said one kid: "After a while, you get to know them. You just get along." In Chicago, one of the nation's most stubbornly segregated cities, a new busing program drew angry words this fall but no violent resistance. Once citizens took to the streets to denounce court rulings. Now a Miami Dolphins...
...kept their cuddly cool, the dolphins and killer whales have shown signs of sorely missing their human audiences. Curator Tom Otten reports that they have become short-tempered, stare balefully at strangers and deliberately make mistakes when doing tricks with their trainers. Says he: "It's like a kid who slams the door, knowing that his mother will ask what's wrong and show him some sympathy." This watery form of anthropomania doubtless is an acquired trait, since in their natural habitat none of the mammals are aware of humans. Indeed, Trainer Tim Desmond suspects that his charges...
Except, of course, for the dozens of model planes piled on top of a pinball machine in an unused bedroom. Built by a friend, the planes are mostly the vintage airliners Travolta saw from his window as a kid, dreaming that they would some day take him away from the humdrum of Englewood, N.J. There are old Lockheed Constellations, with their twin tails, and British Brittanias. But most of all there are sturdy little DC-3s, the workhorse of four decades. "It was the first true airliner," he says. "It depended just on people who wanted to pick...