Word: schoolboys
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...occasionally playing pranks, like painting a pigeon's wings with the red. white and blue tricolor and then setting it loose, provoking a vain fusillade from German guards). He sustained himself too by a great feat of memory-writing The Mediterranean, filling up and mailing out one schoolboy copybook after another. "I had to believe that history, destiny, was written at a much more profound level," recalls Braudel of those years. "So it was that I consciously set forth in search of a historical language in order to present unchanging, or at least very slowly changing conditions which stubbornly...
Until, that is, they discovered his intention of attending Harvard. Only nobody told the Yankees, who went right ahead and drafted the Massachusetts schoolboy flame-thrower the same year that Mickey Rivers and Ed Figueroa first donned pinstripes...
...25th anniversary of Queen Elizabeth's reign. It was as if the mother tongue of Shakespeare and Milton had lapsed into baby talk. Betjeman's quatrains palpitated with cliches and such treacly rhymes as people/steeple, dutiful/beautiful and blue/true. Stanza 4 particularly captured the poem's schoolboy earnestness...
...Schoolboy Terrorists. For the moment at least, Smith is still talking peace. Last week he declared that he would now seek an internal solution with moderate representatives of Zimbabwe, the black nationalists' name for Rhodesia. Argued Smith: "Why should a few thousand terrorists, the majority of them mere schoolboys, call the tune to 6 million basically peaceful and peace-loving Africans?" To demonstrate good faith, his government prepared to announce the repeal of discrimination laws, specifically the Land Tenure Act, which restricts the 6.2 million blacks and 271,000 whites to roughly equal halves of the land...
Zuffelato was a top-notch recruiter, the kind of coach decked out in three-piece suits from "Beau Brummel" who recruited in cars supplied gratis by local dealers. Zuffelato landed Boston schoolboy stars Bob Carrington, who was drafted by the Detroit Pistons, and Will Morrison...