Word: nipper
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Second Time Around. Yogananda says that his earliest memories, as a mere infant, were of a previous incarnation, in which he was "a Yogi amidst the Himalayan snows." Crying spells and "prayerful surges" welled up in the precocious little nipper when he realized that he was no more than a mewling suckling. At the age of eight, he was struck down by Asiatic cholera. He was at death's door when his mother gestured frantically toward a photograph of her favorite yogi, and screamed to her son: "Bow to him mentally [and] your life will be spared!" "I gazed...
...Grandmother's. I told young Paula to pack up whatever of her clothes she could find among the wreckage and push off to her grandmother's place at Puddleston by herself and I told Kit to take the nipper to my mother's at Ashmont. She did and I pitched in on the job of cleaning up the wreckage . . . some of the lads from the shop came to give a hand...
...Nipper Nipped. In Spokane, one Jack Frost fractured his ankle while sledding...
...heart overflowing with sympathy, we returned to the Sever quadrangle in search of the little nipper who had once owned our copy of the Anniversary Guide. He was gone; perchance (unfortunate one!) to the Union, or even...who knows...to some happy hunting ground where life is one long reunion, the valuables are all hidden away and no one knows anybody else's name...