Word: scouted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Priest and a long curved sword of justice. The pageantry of installation, the Aga's initial assumption of temporal and spiritual leadership over some 20 million widely scattered Ismailis, seemed at times more like a U.S. college May fete than a religious rite. It ended with a boy scout band, possibly fresh out of nonrepeat tunes, playing Swanee River...
...father, told delighted newsmen: "That's our daughter, and both me and the missus were born in London." He said Johanna had moved to Cardiff with them when she was 13, got a job in a butcher's shop, later was shipped to Hollywood by a talent scout. (MGM, which likes Johanna-Anna in her off-shoulder sari, first hedged, then admitted her identity.) Said Papa O'Callaghan huffily: "She never mentioned Mr. Brando in her letters...
...throw farther than the rest of us." Lew traded rocks for a baseball in order to get a job at the local American Viscose plant, whose factory team needed a pitcher. He improved fast enough to earn a baseball scholarship to the University of Richmond, and there a Yankee scout found...
...mayor was in his office. Why wasn't he out there in the street giving safe-conduct to women and children? Where were all the heaven-hollering preachers? Where were the priests of the "one true Church?" Where were the officers of the Y.M.C.A.? Where were the Boy Scout leaders? As a Southerner, I can understand the social issues. I am tolerant of a normal degree of cowardice. But the cowardice of "the best people" of Little Rock was an unnatural cowardice that ought to be explained...
Were civil defense to receive as much attention as the threatened Asian flu epidemic in this country, there would probably be fewer gray hairs and ulcers in the Civil Defense Administration. Yet Americans are preparing for a disease, whose fatal effects will be negligible, with more Boy-Scout-brand energy than they have ever devoted to the nuclear peril...