Word: two-year-old
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...girders of a half-completed traffic ramp on Manhattan's lower East Side one afternoon last week, Louis Sarno, a sinewy construction foreman, saw a big-city tragedy in the making. Directly across traffic-jammed South Street an apartment window stood open. As Sarno watched, a two-year-old boy climbed on the sill, teetered in fright four floors above the sidewalk. Sarno yelled at two gardeners working across the street. They did not hear him. The 41-year-old foreman wasted no more time...
...Milkman Wagner, who has dabbled in horses since 1945 and bought Hi-Lo's Forbes as a two-year-old (for $275) from a relative, is not yet ready to declare his independence of cows. "I've been working eight years to feed my horses, now one of them is feeding me," he grants. But he adds worriedly: "A horse can go lame just standing in a stable...
Inside the two houses, little had been left to the imagination. Simpering store-window dummies posed on the uncomfortable upholstery of government-surplus furniture. A laughing two-year-old perched precariously on the back of a chaise longue; a young woman postured in leg-revealing shorts. Upstairs a sleek blonde feigned innocent sleep. In one cellar, pajama-clad parents had herded their kids into wooden FCDA shelters, as if they had just been awakened by the wail of a warning siren. In every room, dummy Americans waited for the works...
...British Reporter William] Connor is cordially invited to occupy our spare bedroom for a weekend if he should decide to return. We have a two-year-old gangster who would, I'm sure, leave many impressions that he would not forget nor report...
Temporary Alternative. After all the palaver and the promises, the whole two-year-old debate appeared to be wide open again. A tempting alternative was now widely discussed. Why not forget all the complexities of a common command, a common uniform and common budget? Why not simply rearm the West Germans, and postpone all talk of a federated Western Europe? This is the proposal of General de Gaulle, who from the first has fought the European Army idea...