Word: latins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trace of a smile at the corners of his mouth, hen shut the door and left. Soon he came jack alone and said: "Thee will please be in my office after Assembly tomorrow." He knew darn well that two boys [like us] would never normally be cracking a Latin book on Sunday morning. But he wouldn't ive us away to the shed owner...
Pitching looks as if it is going to be the strong spot of the Freshman nine. A host of former prep school hurlers looks pretty good to Coach Warren Berg. Among them are Kevin Reilly, late of Roxbury Latin and brother of last year's Varsity ace, Brendon Reilly, Jim Gabler from Exeter, and Bill Emmons, who served in the armed forces...
Married. John Gunther, 46, widely traveled, quick-looking journalist (Inside Europe, Inside Asia, Inside Latin America, Inside U.S.A.); and Jane Perry Vandercook, 31, blonde ex-wife of bearded, widely traveled Author John W. Vandercook; each for the second time; in Chicago...
...action, it seems to fit more closely into the latter category. It tells the Oedipus story in an abbreviated form, with the chorus playing about the same part that it does in the play and each of the male singers taking several roles. Although the text is in Latin, a speaker breaks in with details of the plot in English a few times during the performance...
...When his handler released him, John Kehoe's grey tore across the pit, neck-feathers up. His onrushing enemy was a powerful red rooster equipped, like the grey, with needle-sharp, steel gaffs that man had added to his natural weapons. (U.S. cockfighters consider themselves more humane than Latin Americans, who use razor-edge "slashers.") The cocks hit each other almost two feet off the ground, in a staccato flap of wings. Every few minutes, handlers separated the cocks, sponged blood from their heads. Above the excited hubbub rose a woman's flat drawl: "Come on, red rooster...