Word: lad
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Troop 416 is agonizingly unique, its membership drawn exclusively from the Hilltop School for retarded and deformed children. Each Friday morning the redoubtable patrolman dons his red bandanna and scoutmaster's cap and takes charge of 15 of the most heartbreaking youngsters in all of New England. One lad has only half a face, another is strapped into a wheelchair, several others are schizophrenic; most have an unfavorable prognosis. During one meeting, a boy who could not talk until Poulin formed the troop reads haltingly through the Scout oath, then breaks into happy shouts of "Scout! Scout!" when...
...Ludovico Technique, a behavioristic barrage of electric impulses and motion-picture film that cripples him with nausea at the mere thought of sex or violence. Thoroughly zapped, Alex is transformed into a kind of automaton, a clockwork orange, with no free will of his own. "As decent a lad as you would meet on a May morning!" gushes the Minister of the Interior (Anthony Sharp), who hopes to use Alex and the Ludovico Technique for political gain...
...many communities where it does work, one-way busing has proved to be a rewarding experience for white children as well as black. In suburban Wilton, Conn., one white lad recently startled a friend with an unusual expression of envy. "Boy, are you lucky! You live in a place with elevators, and you can walk to the candy store any time you want to." The surprised friend was a street-wise black from downtown Bridgeport. "That's all right," the black youngster answered. "You got some nice things here...
World War II was more remote and not as much fun. Willy's eldest son was killed in it. The strudel of his father's eye, he was a lad with an infallible business instinct for knowing just when to switch from regular to homogenized milk. By contrast, the surviving son, Frank Joseph Kleinhans, is an inept dreamer who goes through life keeping his amateur standing...
...John Brown's yard. He is just in time for a warm welcome by shop stewards, a quick briefing on the takeover, and a noon lunch with the workers. He pumps hands with worried men in flat checked caps and tells one apprentice: "This is a grim time, lad." After a spot of tea and a puff on his pipe, Wilson climbs onto a chair and says: "I am here on behalf of the Labor movement to assert your right to work." Harold is cheered as he leaves, but his trip has not guaranteed him a hoped-for political...