Word: six-year-old
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...first good look the world had of the sisters together was when they stood side by side at their father's coronation, wearing identical robes of royal purple, trimmed with ermine. Reporters, cameramen and radio commentators were fascinated at the sight of six-year-old Margaret yawning, stretching, tapping her silver slippers, riffling through the pages of a prayerbook, and tickling her sister, while eleven-year-old Elizabeth frowned and nudged her in lofty, outraged dignity. The reporters might have been even more fascinated had they been in the palace earlier and seen Princess Margaret kick...
Miracle of the Seed. Farmer Pfister (rhymes with Easter) is the biggest U.S. individual grower of hybrid seed corn. This year his six-year-old Pfister Hybrid Corn Co. will gross about $1,500,000, net some $60,000 to $70,000, which Lester...
...small fry, accustomed to an austere four ounces of sweets a week, began to speak expertly of such popular British candies as "hundreds & thousands," "bull's-eyes," "gobstoppers," "English humbugs." Six-year-old Jane Merrill gave some definitions: "'Gobstoppers' are soft and big and when there's one in your mouth it's so full you don't do anything but sputter. 'Hundreds & thousands' are called that because there are so many of them and they are measured out in a cup. They come in colors and I like pink...
...time, it looked like a fine game to six-year-old Mike Rector and his two playmates. Whooping it up as cowboys & Indians, the playmates tied Mike up in a nearby garage, bound his feet and set fire to him. By the time his mother had smothered the flames, 70% of Mike's sturdy little body was deeply scarred. At Washington's Casualty Hospital, Chief Surgeon Joseph Rogers Young took one look and told Mrs. Rector that her son probably could not live until morning...
...decided to try religion when they got hold of a four-hour Cinecolor film of the annual Easter sunrise passion play put on as an Oklahoma hillside Oberammergau by citizens of Lawton, Okla. Babb & Jossey trimmed the film and added some homey fictional sequences fore & aft, starring a six-year-old "find" from Atlanta, named Ginger Prince ("42 inches and 42 pounds of Southern charm...