Word: schoolyard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tiny Persian Gulf sheikdom of Kuwait, Arab boys end a strenuous schoolyard military drill by hauling down an Israeli flag from a makeshift pole, trampling it exultantly. At a school for royalty in Saudi Arabia, King Saud's sons dress up as modern Egyptians, act out a playlet called Heroes of Port Said by fiercely vanquishing the "cowardly" British and Israelis, and-stretching a point-Americans. Behind these and similar exercises in Arab nationalism are hundreds of Egyptian schoolteachers, exported to education-hungry Mid-East nations by Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser, paid partly by local governments, partly...
...Black Egg. Naturaly this does not endear little Benjy to the dirty-fingernail set in the schoolyard, but Benjy has his reward when his Good Fairy shows up. An offbeat sort decked in a baseball uniform and chomping an outsize cigar, this Good Fairy grants Benjy's only wish that "whatever big and marvelous things happen to little Benjy . . . will happen to his dear Mummy, too!" Months pass, and nothing happens until one day Mummy and Benjy drag sulky old Daddy out on a picnic. Benjy spots a giant black egg. and Daddy tells him not to fool around...
...throwing rocks at trees in a schoolyard near his home, he said, when a car pulled up and the driver got out. The man talked pleasantly to Lee about birds and animals, said his name was Bob. Suddenly the man clapped his hand over Lee's mouth, warned him to "be quiet and don't make any noise because I don't want to hurt you." The kidnaper stuffed a lace handkerchief into Lee's mouth, then tied another around his face. The boy was then led to the car, shoved into the trunk-which...
...dynamite blast that shattered a wing of the seven-year-old, $500,000 Hattie Cotton Elementary School where one five-year-old Negro girl had registered the day before. The blast ripped doors off hinges, cracked plaster and scattered bricks and glass in thick, ugly layers across the surrounding schoolyard and walks. "A hellish explosion-just like God had whispered in my ear," said one nearby resident...
Dashing hysterically to the school, panicky mothers in pin curls and slacks retrieved their children, led them home through a 20-block area strewn with hunks of fallen metal, fragments of Fiberglas insulation, oxygen tanks. Though wreckage had pierced walls and roofs, no one outside the Junior High schoolyard was seriously hurt. From Los Angeles in the wake of the crash came angry demands for federal controls. But in the San Fernando Valley, anger was tempered by sorrow, and death had wiped magic from the air and sparkling sun. Gathering her child to her tightly, a mother said sadly: "Living...