Word: lad
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rimmed glasses. After six years of diligent work in his drab little Welsh seaside town, Charlie still boards in a room formerly occupied by a pickle salesman. He has barely risen to be fifth of six clerks. "That's a safe job," everybody tells Charlie until the poor lad, in quiet panic, begins to see 40 years to retirement stretching ahead...
When I was a lad, people said anyone can be President. How true...
Drop in any evening at a literary pub in Edinburgh and you are likely to find William Smellie, who will expansively declare that he was the editor of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, published in 1771. And he is apt to say of his achievement: "I wrote most of it, my lad, and snipped out from books enough material for the printer. With pastepot and scissors I composed it." But as of now, Editor Smellie is finished at the Britannica. Because of the encyclopedia's success, both in Britain and the Colonies, the owners wanted all three volumes expanded according...
...When his father asked young Jimmy if he chopped down the family's beloved peach tree, the lad responded, "Well, perhaps...
...court, of course, a clever defense attorney turns Margaux's profession against her, forcing her to admit that she sometimes has used impure thoughts to get herself into the mood for a sexy photograph. The jury decides at once that this modern Jez ebel led this nice-looking lad on. Poor Anne Bancroft, as the prosecutor, rails angrily, but he gets off and a week later has at the kid sister - played by Margaux's real-life sibling Mariel, 14, who appears to have a modest natural gift for acting...