Word: pelham
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...story covers some twenty years, from the great mutiny of 1857 until the second Afghan War, as seen through the intense, close-set eyes of Ashton Pelham-Martyn (Ben Cross). Like Kipling's hero Kim, Ashton is the orphaned child of English-speaking parents. Raised by an Indian nurse, who passes the boy off as her son Ashok, he is discovered by Britons and shipped home to England to become a proper sahib. As a young man, he returns to India, joins the crack Corps of Guides, valiantly leads expeditions into the Afghan mountains, and suffers a grievous casualty...
...Thompson OG 5-7 196 Sr. Little Block, AR 39 Mike Tjarksen WB 6-0 186 Se. N. Muskegon, MI 20 Brad Tounsaint DB 5-10 170 Se. Les Altos, CA 9 Ray Vagel DB 5-11 196 Se. Ladyard, CT 93 Kevin Walsh DT 6-3 240 Jr. Pelham, NY 99 Kyle Wardon TE 6-8 186 Sr. Uvbandula, IA 50 Tim Weber LB 6-2 218 Sa. Dallas, TX 75 Jerry Weseleski OG 6-4 225 Jr. Scotts, MS 30 Bob White LB 5-10 235 Sr. Shelron, CT 71 Paul Wime C 6-4 235 Jr. Upper...
Ozick can scarcely credit the notion that she is widely regarded as a formidable intellectual. "It seems like a hoax, a vast mistake," she says. Born in New York City in 1928, she was raised in the Pelham Bay section of The Bronx, a middle-class neighborhood. "At P.S. 711 was dumb, cross-eyed, and couldn't do arithmetic; I think the image of what we are when we are little kids is our image for life. Everything went wrong for me then, including the anti-Semitism of the teachers and the kids...
MARRIED. Nancy Lopez, 25, golf pro who is eighth in money earned on the women's tour this year, and Ray Knight, 29, flashy infielder for the Houston Astros; both for the second time; in Pelham...
...Valentine's Day, 1975, Sir Pelham, 93, fell asleep in his chair, pipe half filled, writing materials beside him. So lived and died the character P.G. Wodehouse had labored to create: a perfect gentleman and a happy writer...