Word: runte
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Around a corner in The Bronx scuttled a wild-eyed runt. The kid's tiny round head was ducked between high, skinny shoulders, his nose was bleeding, and he sobbed as he ran. After him pounded three bigger boys. One by one they gave up the chase; the runt ran too fast. He ran until he was out of sight. He is running still...
...slum neighborhoods, the runt gets picked on. "I had to fight to stay alive," Billy recalls, "and I always lost." But he always came back for more. One day he came back with a heavy lock dangling at the end of a strap. He knocked out two of his attackers and the rest beat it. Billy learned the lesson: plainly, all men are not created equal-but there are equalizers...
Young was a runt of a boy with a large head and orange-colored hair. Inevitably, he was called "Punk" (short for "punkin-head"). Because of his initials, one prophetic friend called him "Railroad." As a boy, Young learned how to ride horses, handle guns and use his wits to compensate for his lack of bulk...
...same thick, brilliant gloss is spread over the characters and their emotions. The boy Jody is well played by a twelve-year-old Tennessee schoolboy named Claude Jarman Jr. His father, Penny Baxter (described by Novelist Rawlings as a scrawny, narrow-shouldered runt), is acted with clean competence-a mite too clean -by handsome Gregory Peck, 6ft. 3 in. Glum, discouraged Ma Baxter is impersonated with affecting skill by Jane Wyman, whose talents have been wasted for years by Warner Bros, in pert ingénue roles. But even in scrubbed, unlipsticked make-up Miss Wyman's trim face...
...gift is a nearly unerring eye: he knows the good pitches from the bad and so is able to let the bad ones go past without swinging at them. Last week, with 14 more free walks, his season's total was 52. Last year Brooklyn's writhing runt set a National League record with...