Word: three-year-old
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Without warning the Reds opened up on the two unarmed families in a withering blast of carbine and submachine-gun fire. Three-year-old Thomas Makil fell with a bullet in his leg, and slugs ripped through his four-month-old sister Janie's body into her father, killing them both. Elwood Jacobsen jerked backward and fell dead into the road. "I started hollering 'Elwood, Elwood,' " said Mrs. Jacobsen, "but I got no answer." In a flash, the Reds disappeared into the jungle; moments later, a truckload of government troops lumbered into sight down the road...
...velvet slippers she is whipping up for Dad; all embroidery done during The Period of Expectancy is performed under the pale light of a cut-glass chandelier, in a full-length chiffon hostess gown, no matter that it's the middle of the day. Or she shows three-year-old Junior the bassinet being readied for Baby; Junior, never having heard of sibling rivalry or displacement, smiles as he runs his freshly scrubbed hands over the imported organdy flounces that Mummy can have laundered for not more than...
...career. Guggenheim does not believe in overworking a race horse. "My only concern with racing today is to try to keep a horse sound," he says. But Never Bend has been so busy that he stands a good chance of becoming U.S. racing's first three-year-old millionaire...
...Phillips Brooks House sponsors the three-year-old Project, which sends Harvard undergraduates to teach in Tanganyika from three to 15 months. This year nine students will remain for the full 15 months...
...legislature cut the allowable dose of thallium sulfate in a rat-poison mixture from 3% to 1%; the U.S. Department of Agriculture did the same in 1960. But even the weaker mixture is dangerous: it takes only half an ounce of chemically adulterated cookies to kill an average three-year-old. And 15 of the cases in the A.M.A. Journal study developed after the new law was passed...