Word: pariahdom
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Dates: during 1945-1945
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Like many another schoolboy outcast, flop-footed, inky-fingered "Bop" La Farge plugged his dogged way out of pariahdom. In his third year he tackled another bully, finished him off with an astonished "30 seconds of deliriously swinging one haymaker after another." In the Fourth Form he was a star high-jumper despite heckling classmates who chanted "Bop-Bop-Bop" at the side of the jumping pit. By graduation he had attained respectability with the kudos of a letterman in both football and crew...
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