Word: wee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from buying trash, has saved hundreds of parents from boring their children or scaring them out of their wits. But as the center keeps on growing, some parents may begin to wonder what happened to all the old favorites. Among the old favorites condemned last week: Kipling's Wee Willie Winkle ("containing elements of white superiority"), and Five Little Peppers ("The grammar is atrocious...
Best race of the day will probably be the 880 in which "Wee Willie" Smith, Terrier freshman, will be out to get even with the Crimson's Ronnie Berman for an indoor 600 defeat this winter. Smith has already turned in a 1:54.7 half this year. Berman, however, looked very good against Rhode Island last week with a time...
...Catholic account, Scottish James actually sought Catholic support for himself when he first moved to London, changed his mind when he found himself popular with his Protestant subjects. On viewing his first cheering English crowd, the story goes, James turned to a councilor and said, "Na, na, guid fayth, wee's not need the Papists...
...fearsom' whoops o' the hairy-legged hi'landers and the proud switchin's o' their kilts bode fair to make this a noble screening o' that mirk rebellion o' 1745. But e'en were there ha' sae much blather as the remains of the movie showed, 'twould be wee wonder that the Scotsmen couldna win the war. A man mocht e'en think they wer'nae beaten at Culloden wi' clouds o' Redcoat shot 'n shell, but hae merely talked themselves to death...
Other than this addition to the long arm of the law, the only little people abroad will be ghouls and ghosts and wee-wiggledie beats...