Word: schoolboy
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...turn. He fails in a second try and bangs his head in disgust. "I'm sorry, I will improve," Nureyev apologizes. Pale with concentration, he repeats the step with needle-sharp precision. Williams nods and his pupil jigs back and forth in fifth position like a gleeful schoolboy...
...they have every June for the past 96 years, high school students in New York fearfully awaited a series of tough statewide achievement tests that is unique in the nation. But last week the annual nightmare suddenly turned into every schoolboy's dream. As stories spread that copies of stolen answer keys were being sold in and around many of New York City's high schools, embarrassed officials were forced to cancel nine of the 21 tests, including those for English, Hebrew, social studies, biology, chemistry, physics and three different levels of mathematics...
...Crimson 'clads looked disappointing on paper they really weren't outclassed by Penn or Navy. The two top teams had the depth necessary to win, but few of the competitors could match the Crimson's field strength, and the Harvard runners fared well in a market glutted with recruited schoolboy 440 and 880 champions. "Overall I was really pleased," Hunt said after Leone crossed the finish line to end the mile relay and the meet. "The bovs did a hell...
Midget football had one big advantage over schoolboy sports--no limitations on practice. Asher's boys had playbooks that would have broken Karl Sweetan's foot if he had dropped one. They began practice in midsummer and by the time the season was over in December had combed the country from Miami to Levittown to Chicago looking for a team that could play with them...
...something of a mystery to the end. Like most transsexuals, Morris was never a homosexual or a transvestite. The book convincingly insists that the road to Casablanca was not taken in the pursuit of sexual gratification. It was simply that during the whole of a successful life as a schoolboy, soldier and father-in short, as a male-Morris was tormented by the growing realization that his gender, his inner self, his center of being, his very soul, was feminine. Everything that he eventually did to become Jan was done-he says -from an agonized need for unity between...