Word: runts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chunky (5 ft. 6 in., 155 Ibs.), refused to give up. Not until the 32nd hole of the scheduled 36-hole final did Jim Turnesa even the match-and he had to sink a 15-foot birdie putt to do it. Said one knowing spectator:"That little runt won't let Harbert off the hook...
...Fanatic." Manning was born in Germany in 1897. His father was a junior officer in the British Foreign Service, his mother a German. When he was ten, his father moved to New York and went into the importing business. Young Manning was a runt with a lisp (since conquered), and his parents were never surprised when he came home with a bloodied nose...
...poem the same way a hen knows she has an egg." When he visited a friend in Kentucky, a startled observer reported: "In the first twenty-four hours the poet was seen to rescue several toads from wells into which they had stumbled; to feed from a bottle the runt pig of a large litter; to rub noses with a calf in a field; to whisper something into the wagging ear of a burro from Texas-imported for his express companionship; to feed countless chickens and ducks; and to ignore only men . . ." Summing up his American experience, Stephens said...