Word: kidded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Konski, who retired from Congress in 1973, was a member of the House Armed Services Committee. Kappus recalls how he met a charming Soviet embassy official named Boris A. Sedov and was soon being invited to Soviet embassy parties. Kappus was genuinely dazzled. "I was just a kid," says he, "two years out of Eau Claire, Wis., and there I was-waiting to be introduced to the ambassador...
...FRIDAY SOME kid just wandered around testily, yelling "Don't before me, my leg hurts." He got bit, you see, on the subway, by a seeing-eye dog. So Saturday night this Salem-smoking refugee from West Virginia comes in and says, "That line's been rollin' and tumblin' around my head all day. We gotta write a song about gittin' bit by a seeing-eye dog." His almost-heaven West Virginia accent laid me in the aisles, where I rolled over Tim Carlson, self-described "gangly, goofy, blushing, cowlicky, smartass, shynose, sloppy lunch eater" who kneed...
...this greenhouse approach to writing is not so much an interpretive autobiography as the most comprehensive lab report in the history of science. In exhaustive--and exhausting--detail, we follow Skinner through a curious childhood and a lonely, almost morose, adolescence in a drab Pennsylvania town. Skinner recounts Kollege Kid pranks and personality molding teachers at Hamilton College, a year as a struggling writer, and a bohemian period in Greenwich Village...
...there for job reasons. And the parents' occupations and attitudes have a lot to do with determining how large a does of the country's culture they receive. In their conversation, Harvard students who have lived abroad referred to each other by their parents' occupations; a "foreign service kid" was distinct from an "oil kid" or from a "military kid." But no matter where they went or how they got there, most expressed a more positive view of the American life abroad then at home...
After a quick trip down to the Cambridge jail, Murphy and Stanton returned to the streets. Five minutes later, they received a call and arrested a drunk Cambridge teenager. "We knew the kid," Murphy said. "We've arrested him three times before, but we'll have to let him go because he's a juvenile." Juvenile courts, he says, are much more lenient than district courts, where anyone 17 years old and over is tried...