Word: schoolyard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...woman wearing slacks ran out of a door and waved her arms. Four station wagons, three trucks and the one ambulance dashed out of the schoolyard and down the street. She went back in. In about five minutes she came out again, waved her arms, and more waiting vehicles drove off in the opposite direction. After a short time they all came back. These operations were repeated several times very smoothly until a big dog came along. The dog ran in front of the stray ambulance and began to bark. The woman in slacks called other women in slacks...
About half an hour later more or less, some of the men with bandages on their arms persuaded the dog to stop barking. And they helped him into a nearby shelter. After that, there were no further delays, except when the ambulance almost got stuck on the schoolyard fence and one of the cars stalled...
Julia "will do anything-fight a man, curse a teacher, or kiss a boy in the schoolyard." But she is sexually scared and she quit her husband as soon as she learned that her supposed pregnancy was only a stomachache. A golddigger, she says: "When you get a sucker, bump his head.'' Of white folks: "I hate white people. I just like to beat on white people...
...last week 125 pupils gathered dutifully in their schoolyard to watch Fat Stuff's last lesson. First a health inspector examined Fat Stuff. Then he gave the silent children a lecture on hog inspection. Then he slit Fat Stuff's throat...