Word: schoolboy
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Occupied by the British in 1833, they have been claimed ever since by Argentina, which calls the islands the Malvinas. The ownership issue has been debated before the OAS, the U.N., and even in postage stamps put out by both nations. Every Argentine schoolboy is brought up on the slogan that "the Malvinas are Argentina's." Last week a band of young Argentine nationalists decided the time had come for action...
...university diploma, as every Soviet schoolboy knows, is an essential passport to a white-collar job and ultimate success. Inevitably, the competition for college has led to a displeasing amount of corruption. This spring, reported Komsomolskaya Pravda, 32 students were expelled from the Armenian state university in Erivan when authorities discovered that they had gained their admission through political influence and faked records, and had not passed a single entrance test...
...little dance of alienation, romping through the Louvre in about nine minutes to beat the record set by a busy American tourist. The rest is pretty random stuff, discomfitting evidence that Godard's blazing love affair with the art of film sometimes resembles nothing so much as a schoolboy's crush...
...hockey team has elected Dennis McCullough captain for next season. McCullough, who played his schoolboy hockey in Dollar Bay, Mich, and at Andover, and has been a wing for the Crimson varsity for almost two full seasons...
William Samuel Rosenberg began to attract attention as an undersized schoolboy. He became a winning sprinter "by jumping the gun without detection." Soon afterward he stopped growing. But he kept on running, and he never stopped jumping the competition. He was too tiny-5 ft. 3 in.-to compete physically, so he decided to lead with his right: he became a stenographer. The day before he was to compete in a worldwide shorthand contest, he broke an index finger. He worked his way around the injury by jamming his pen through a potato, then took dictation while holding the potato...