Word: kidded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...classes that I missed out on some of youth's simple pleasures--lawbreaking and endangering life and limb. I feared lighters, loaded guns, and Confederate flags, all best sellers at Southern fireworks outlets. When I got to college I couldn't even afford the reckless abandon of the rich kid--who discovers his parent's credit ceiling and breaks it buying drugs...
...know how the kid got the ball in thereon that play," Huskie Coach Paul Pawluk said...
...Thomas Jr. has been a political junkie since he was a kid working for his father, who ran Sam Thomas Mercantile Co. ("The Poor Man's Friend") in Quitman. Nita first met him when he was 16, driving a yellow pickup, racing voters down dusty roads to the polls. They were married in 1950, and from there they went on to build a comfortable, prosperous life, largely through Sam's property dealings, and to have four children. One of them, Patti Harper, picked us up at the Shreveport airport with her own two offspring corralled in the back...
...abandoned school at 15 and quickly rose from Manhattan streets to the clamorous offices of song publishers. Sometimes his talent outstripped his ambition. When he auditioned for a job with Irving Berlin, the composer turned him down with some free advice: "Stick to writing your own songs, kid...
...kid took it to heart. Gershwin's music reflected an emotional ebullience, but he rarely gave all of himself in private life. He was exceptionally close to his brother; they shared a house even after Ira's marriage. But George remained a bachelor whose most valued female friend was the married composer Kay Swift...