Word: culvert
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...enemy air attack occurs, your family happens to be out on a picnic in nature's wide open spaces, "try to get to some substantial structure, such as a large commercial or civic building, a tunnel, or cave. If none of these is readily available, look for a culvert, underpass or ditch--anything that will get you below ground level--and improvise a shelter"--presumably with any old sandbags or concrete blocks that happen to be lying around...
...really dangerous," and Judd loyally approves "the perfect crime" as "the true test of the superior intellect." So they kidnap a 14-year-old schoolboy named Paulie Kessler (fictional name for Bobby Franks), cosh-kill him in the back of a rented car, and dump the body in a culvert. Remorse? Artie seems incapable of human feeling. But thoughtful, sensitive Judd protests too much: "Murder's nothing! It's just a simple experience. What's one life more or less...
...reform school. The boys, David Simpson, 8, and James Thompson, 10, were locked up on Oct. 29 after a white mother complained that the older boy had forced her seven-year-old daughter to kiss him. The boys' version of the story: they were playing down in a culvert with several other white boys and girls; there, two of the girls sat on the laps of white boys, and a third sat on Thompson's lap and kissed him. The Negro boys, who had already been in minor scrapes with the local police (housebreaking, petty thievery), were committed...
...book's leading characters are, on the face of it, five heroes and one coward. Major Thomas Thorn-stocky, undistinguished, middle-aged-is the coward. Dur ing his first skirmish, he had crept trembling into a culvert. Partly in deference to his dead father, a crop-thwacking cavalryman, Thorn was not court-martialed. Instead, with thickly sabered irony, he was exiled from his outfit to become a writer of awards for the Medal of Honor. Without cynicism, Commanding General John J. Pershing (in an imaginary conversation) explained to Thorn the pressing need for medal winners: with U.S. entanglement...
...late spring evening in 1924, a bird watcher named Judd Steiner dropped his glasses near a culvert which crossed the reedy marshlands outside Chicago. Judd, however, had not been watching birds. He had been busily stuffing the mutilated, acid-scarred body of a twelve-year-old boy into a drainpipe. He had a friend to help in this work-Artie Straus...