Word: boying
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...turns out, his wife's cancer wasn't diagnosed until years after the bombing. Once, former attorney general Baxley got to question Cherry in a room in Texas. "He jumped up and was going to beat me up," Baxley recalls. "You knew he'd revert to his bully-boy ways." But knowing he could face extradition to Alabama, Cherry backed down. He has other defenses. In 1965, when asked about his involvement, he replied, "That's when the Fifth Amendment will come in handy...
...greater issue here is not one of preventing on-field conflicts or determining the relative harm of individual and group celebrations, but of attempting to legislate sportsmanship. Initially, expecting players not to be joyous seems unreasonable. If you were 25 and being paid millions of dollars to play a boy's game, wouldn't you be inclined to whoop it up in the end zone every so often...
When I was a U.S. Senate page boy years ago, we took particular delight when Senator Everett McKinley Dirksen of Illinois rose to speak. He was one of the last great American orators, given to decanting recondite vocabulary from his quivering basset's jowls. Fustian emerged in a sepulchral purr...
...woman had abandoned the boy, leaving him with her parents in a remote village in Thailand--until she needed money. Then, her mother said, "she came out of the blue and told me that she would give him away." For a price: $260. And that was how two-year-old Phanupong Khaisri ended up in the U.S. He was a prop in the arms of a couple who had to look like a family: the man was part of an international prostitution ring, the woman an indentured servant he was smuggling into the U.S. Caught by the Immigration and Naturalization...
Raising an outcry (and images of Elian Gonzalez), the Thai community successfully sued to stay the INS's hand. "No investigation had been made as to who was the rightful custodian," says Chanchanit Martorell of the Thai Community Development Center. "What was the rush?" Meanwhile, the boy's paternal grandparents have applied for U.S. visas to claim him. His mother is now the most scorned woman in Thailand. After saying she knew nothing of the smuggling, Tabtim Kaewtaengjan tearily confessed to reporters that she was an unfit mother. Her son, it turns out, had been used twice before on smuggling...