Word: ans
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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In Bangkok, a communique by Thailand's High Command gave out that Siamese forces had repelled an invasion by 24 French guerrillas mounted on two elephants, a bicycle, three horses.
In Bethany, Mo., Raymond King learned with disappointment that it was a girl, when he had wanted a boy. "I'll go back and get you one," said the doctor. An hour later King had his son-a twin.
At 53, Boltz was a tall (5 ft. 11 in.), gaunt (140 lb.), begoggled man with close-cropped greying hair and parchmentlike skin which had a tendency to chap and crack in winter time. He had a large nose, deeply indentured cheeks, an exaggeratedly erect carriage. His walk was peculiar...
Aram (rhymes with a bomb) Garoghlanian (pronounced "Gar, pause, oghlan, slight pause, ian") is the narrator, for William Saroyan, of 14 semi-autobiographical semi-stories of an Armenian childhood in Fresno, Calif. They are, in their modest way, the best writing William Saroyan has done. But like all Saroyan'...
Uncle Khosrove was a fierce and sorrowful man with the biggest mustache in the San Joaquin Valley. He used to sit in silence by the hour with his heartbroken little friend, a "poor and burning Arab." When the Arab died Khosrove "stood in the parlor with his hat on his...