Word: lad
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...remember my first trip to Radio City Music Hall, back in the early '60s, when I was but a wee lad. I went with my grandparents, and we stood for two hours in a line that wrapped around the building, across Sixth Avenue and down 50th St. When we got into the movie palace, it was filled with huge bronze statues, large smoked-glass mirrors, and the biggest candy counter I'd ever seen...
This wrought-up lad moves on to higher, wider-ranging transgressions-from biting an usherette on the leg to raping and killing "little Suzie," his date at the junior prom. Yet each exploit is explained and excused by the same hard-rocking ironic chorus: "Well, he's just an excitable...
Devotees believe Krishna takes his bodily form and visits men in every millenium, bringing his spiritual knowledge to earth. Krishna is supposed to have taken the bodily form during the first century A.D. in the village of Braj in North India. He is portrayed as a mischievous lad in The Round Dance of Krishna, a poem by Nanddas written in the 16th century and based on Sanskrit texts. Krishna is chased along the banks of the Jumnu River by 160 women and with an affected reluctance allows them to catch him. While declaring the strength of love, he multiplies himself...
...should read Breslin. He's a foine ruddy Irish lad who latched onto that foine ruddy Irish pol Tip O'Neill to become the Giant Leprechaun who could set the truth free about Watergate...
Hannibal and nearly defeated Russia in its "winter war" with Finland, is much misunderstood. Thought of as sterile, it .eems with microorganisms, from single-celled creatures to the ice worms immortalized in Robert Service's poem The Bal lad of Blasphemous Bill...