Word: playground
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...swank Cotton Bay Club on Eleuthera Island in the Bahamas is a world-famed playground for fun-loving celebrities and tired millionaires. In recent years, it has become the favorite retreat of top-ranking military men, too-so much so that at times the Cotton Bay Club has looked more like a tropical officers' club than the gilt-edged resort it is. Last week the House Armed Services Committee revealed that a lot of the high brass have been relaxing on the Cotton Bay Club's palm-fringed golf course as freeloading guests of Baltimore's Martin...
...newsmen at the University of Chicago. Then he went to St. Louis, where he was born and raised, for the centennial celebration of Mary Institute, a private school for girls founded by his minister grandfather. Recalling how he once lived next door to the school's gymnasium and playground, Eliot confessed that he used to enjoy the facilities surreptitiously as soon as all the girls scooted home for weekends. "Considering all this," said he, "I consider myself to be an alumnus of Mary Institute. I would say the one and only alumnus...
...their parents. Middle-aged Germans, with a mixture of pride and apprehension, refer to their long-legged, Levi-clad kids as "our young Americans." It is an apt description; today, for the first time in Europe's history, young Europeans, like young Americans, have a continent for a playground and the money in their pockets to explore and enjoy...
...minutes later, Paul Orgeron and Dusty walked together across the big, asphalt-topped playground behind the school, where 50 second-grade children, under the watchful eyes of a teacher, were playing "spat-'em." Orgeron carried a newspaper-wrapped bundle and a suitcase. Dusty carried another suitcase. "Teacher!" called Orgeron. He walked up to Second-Grade Teacher Patricia Johnson and said: "Call all your children up here...
...passed that white kids in the Clinton area had been beating up Puerto Ricans in the Clinton section (when in fact both whites and Puerto Ricans had been living together there in comparative peace). It was all the excuse they needed for a rumble. The victims in the Clinton playground knew neither their attackers nor the reasons for the attack...