Word: lad
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Crowds jammed Amman's King Feisal Avenue six deep last week. Watching from rooftops, veiled women set up the piercing wail of joy called Zaghareed. The object of the outcry, a smiling, slender lad in a slow-moving, blue 1953 Lincoln convertible surrounded by armored cars, replied again & again with precise Sandhurst salutes. The procession moved on to Jordan's Parliament building. There, dressed in the gilded blue uniform of an Arab Legion general, the lad rose from a satin throne and said in a loud, clear voice: "I swear by God to abide by the constitution...
...seen in twelve years, he cited that of a schoolboy who was "unmanly," always tired, always flunking in school. Dr. Kaufman got his mother to keep a record of everything the boy ate, and also to note when he felt most tired. These times came, he found, after the lad ate eggs...
...argument, he shot a Brewerytowner in the leg to cool him off and then accommodatingly dug out the slug with a razor blade. After that, the gang got down to more serious work. Last week five of them drove to a taproom in a stolen sedan. "Blackie" Battles, the lad who had been shot by the enforcer, stood outside with a high-powered rifle. One waited in the car, and the rest walked inside holding .32-cal. pistols...
Everyone who knew Fred Eugene McManus thought he was just about the nicest boy in the suburban village of Valley Stream, N.Y. He was a handsome lad, tall, well built, with a quick, pleasant smile. He came from a good home-the McManus family lives in a big, white, well-kept house, and the boy's father, Mose McManus, a well-paid brewery executive, saw to it that his son had a pleasant life. But unlike many a good-looking boy with doting parents, Fred seemed completely unspoiled. He was quiet, notably polite, and rather shy with girls...
...seven, Norbert Wiener was already interested in chemistry and physics, so his college-professor father set up a small laboratory for him in their home in Cambridge, Mass. But since Norbert was not the kind of lad to lose himself in sterile specialization, he also looked into zoology botany-particularly into "structure and the problems of growth." It soon became clear that little Norbert was a scientific prodigy, one of the most brilliant ever to appear in the U.S. At nine he entered high school; at eleven he was enrolled at Tufts College, a dumpy little boy with thick glasses...