Word: schoolboy
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Sawdust Trail. A Toronto boy, Templeton set pole-vaulting and track records as a schoolboy athlete, quit high school to take art lessons and play football for Toronto's Balmy Beach. At 20 he was a sports cartoonist for the Globe and Mail and syndicated in 18 papers when, as he later testified, "in the midst of my success I saw the futility of my life." That led Templeton to the further discovery that he had an electric touch with religious audiences, and he went off to spend three years on the sawdust trail as an itinerant preacher...
...many ways typical of the tenor of the whole campaign. Kennedy sat with schoolboy composure, taking notes and speaking calmly. Nixon added to the annals of history's best bloopers with a remark about solving the farm problem by abolishing the farmers. And at Agassiz, three 'Cliffies fell asleep...
...missionary doctor, according to one Zulu schoolboy, "prays over you before he kills you." It is a fair measure of Anthony Barker's own humility that he concedes some truth to the schoolboy's definition. As an Anglican medical missionary on a Zululand tribal preserve. Barker has indeed prayed for (and among) his charges. As a district surgeon battling impossible disease with often inadequate tools, he admits to times when a life may have been shortened by his fumbling instead of lengthened by his skill...
...strong man in question is a boisterous and usually self-confident fellow who is troubled because his wife nags him about money and keeps primly to her own side of the bed, his young schoolboy son is ragged by bullies, his daughter is afraid of boys, and he himself, being a harness salesman in the decade of the tin lizzie, has lost his job. Pat Hingle gave the Broadway role a ring of rowdiness soured by doubt. Robert (The Music Man) Preston performs rousingly in the considerably enlarged film part. But the ring of his lines is not doubt...
...hero of Gregor's book is Ernst Scholten, a schoolboy who cares little about the war and less about politics. A passionate reader of Karl May's cowboy-and-Indian stories,* Scholten imagines himself as the dauntless Indian chief, Winnetou. Even though German adults - both soldiers and civilians-urge the uneasy boys to desert, they blindly follow Scholten's lead. "You can do as you please," he says. "I am staying. Winnetou will hold the fort." The boys' resolution is strengthened when a passing general cannot resist spouting nonsense: he urges them to defend the bridge...