Word: schoolboy
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...every intelligent schoolboy knows, there was no need for all this huffing. Uncle Sam would never condemn people to starvation out of spite. Last week 14 Senators and ten Representatives banded together to press for bipartisan action. Among them was Minnesota's Representative Walter H. Judd, a courageous champion of China's Chiang Kaishek and a dead-aim critic of Nehru's foreign policy. And Wisconsin's raspingly 110% American, Senator Joe McCarthy, came out for feeding the Indians. This set the scene for the announcement that President Truman would shortly make a formal request...
...ominous offscreen voice introduces the picture and most of its characters, lingers over a definition of "vendetta" until the dullest schoolboy in the balcony can understand what it means. Then the movie spells out its story just as laboriously. Colomba (Faith Domergue), a proud Corsican beauty, determines to avenge her father's murder by members of the villainous Barricini family. She makes her brother (George Dolenz) the instrument of her revenge and, incidentally, the object of her more-than-sisterly affections...
Arizona-born Hector Escobosa drew his first bead on the business world as a schoolboy window dresser (at no pay) for San Francisco's cavernous Emporium. While attending the University of California nights, he moved on to sales promotion and dress buying at Hale Brothers, and after a stint as vice president and manager of Kansas City's big-volume Jones department store, became boss...
...year-old schoolboy wanted to know why no score was available for Haydn's Symphony No. 58. His teacher told him that "forty years ago a German publisher [Breitkopf & Härtel] started out to collect all of Haydn's works, but bogged down. It was too expensive and nobody cared." The 13-year-old thereupon resolved that Haydn's work should be collected and that people should be made to care. That was in 1939. By last week, at a heavyset 24, Boston's H. C. Robbins Landon was well on the way to both...
With the air of a man who was sure he had hold of a simile any schoolboy could understand, the Secretary continued...