Word: lad
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pettiford and Bob Morrison, a pair of six footers will start at ends, while Joe Bodiker, a highly touted Dayton, Ohio lad, will be the center...
When Foreign News Writer Eldon Griffiths was in TIME'S Los Angeles bureau, one of his favorite stories concerned a well-behaved but homeless lion whose young master had been inducted into the Army. The lad had reported at Fort Ord with the lion, was given two weeks to find a more appropriate place to leave it. Touched by this state of affairs, Griffiths took it upon himself to find a home for the outsized...
...would never have chosen Ronald Rosser. Not that Ronald wasn't well liked-he was one of the quietest and best-behaved boys in town. But he just wasn't a fire-eater. He was a medium-sized (5 ft. 8 in.), medium-heavy (160 Ibs.) lad with medium brown hair, who seemed perfectly contented to lean against store fronts and watch the world-or what there was of it in Crooksville...
Among the battle-seasoned veterans who marched down Piccadilly in London's 1945 Victory Day Parade was a flap-eared Chinese lad who wore the Order of the British Empire. No one who noticed slim, sickly Chin Peng that day could have guessed that in a few years he would be responsible for 7,000 Commonwealth casualties, including 4,000 dead and missing...
...than on the day of the ticket sale. No one offered to kill the referees and no one screamed for the manager's scalp. If a score appeared imminent, spectators shouted a genteel, "have a go." A scoring failure was greeted with good-natured cries of "good try, lad." A finer scoring shot was rewarded with cries of "Smashing!" Arsenal scored late in the first half; in the second half, Chelsea tied it up in a melee in front of the Arsenal goal. It ended that...