Word: seven-year-old
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Iraq is the lesser third of Sir Henry's command; like Persia, it is an occupied, but theoretically independent, nation under a regency and seven-year-old King Feisal II. The British have more enemies than friends among the 4,500,000 Iraqi; it took British bombs and troops to suppress a brief, pro-Nazi regime in Iraq last year. In Iraq and in adjoining central Persia is the bulk of Sir Henry's Tenth Army, poised to turn northward if the Germans come down from the Caucasus, west if they approach from the Mediterranean and Egypt...
...Seven-year-old Larry Simms, the "Baby Dumpling" of the cinema's Blondie & Dagwood series, demanded $118,000 damages from radio's Baby Dumpling, 22-year-old Leone le Doux (a she). Grounds: imitation...
...seven-year-old Filipino boy made the mistake of walking behind a sentry instead of in front. The sentry ran him through with a bayonet. The boy's father tried to retrieve his body, was bayoneted...
...explain to her youngsters why Tom Sawyer is a good book and Tom Swift not. She just makes the good books sound interesting so that the kids start reading them. To introduce Uncle Tom's Cabin, she tells her children that it started a war. When a seven-year-old demands "a good murder mystery," Miss Fenner suggests Freddy the Detective: it generally turns out to be just what he wanted, though it has no murders and Freddy is only a pig. Titles, says Miss Fenner, are important. One of her second-graders picked up a book, Science Stories...
...Dionne Quintuplets may soon be living with their folks. Provincial Secretary Harry Corwin Nixon of Ontario says that the seven-year-old quints, who have spent all but the first four months of their lives in the Dafoe nursery, have reached the age of reason, no longer need the State's guardianship, and ought to lead "a more normal life." ∙ ∙ Major General Amos Alfred Fries, 68-year-old retired chief of chemical warfare, won a sharp skirmish with District of Columbia authorities over the height of his privet hedge. They said it was three feet higher than...