Word: schoolyard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tired of her "county dresses" and the boys who called her "Norma Jeane the Human Bean," she borrowed a blue sweater from a girl friend. "When I walked into the class room," she says, "the boys suddenly began screaming and groaning and throwing themselves on the floor." In the schoolyard at lunchtime the swains stood around her three deep, and every afternoon after that there were a dozen bikes stacked along the curb outside her house. The neighbors were soon in a snit about "that little bitch." Norma Jeane was in a daze. "For the first time in my life...
...afternoon in 1953, as she was playing volley ball in the schoolyard, Bernadete fell, giving her right elbow a nasty crack on the pavement. X rays showed a simple fracture, but the pain grew worse until last year, when a surgeon operated twice to remove tumors. When she failed to recover after the second operation, she was moved to the sparsely equipped, twelve-bed cancer hospital in the coastal city of Recife, where Dr. Valdemir Lopez, the hospital's director, found that a form of cancer (osteosarcoma) had spread from her arm to her right lung. He told...
...burning airplane. Acting on this theory, Maxwell Air Force Base in Montgomery sent 40 airplanes crisscrossing Alabama, looking for the wreckage. When Air Force authorities learned that the black stone had scored a hit on Mrs. Hodges, they sent a helicopter, which landed in the Sylacauga schoolyard...
...sunset everything was ready. Some 200 Moslem Boy Scouts gathered in a schoolyard, ready to be issued their torches: tin cans stuffed with oil-soaked sawdust and mounted on poles. In their midst appeared a burly, bearded nationalist name Taha al Waly, a follower of the fanatic ex-Mufti of Jerusalem. He proposed that the paraders detour under the windows of President Camille Chamoun, a Christian...
...with a whoosh. In panic, others threw their torches away. In a moment the yard became an oil-soaked pyre. The impregnated sawdust blazed like napalm, clinging to raw flesh, burning and spreading. The crowd, roaring with fear and pain, ran from side to side in the narrow schoolyard. But there was no escape: three of the walls were 10 feet high; the only exit was a narrow gate. It was over in 20 minutes: 33 died, hundreds more were badly burned...