Word: schoolboys
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...early childhood at the idyllic country mansion called Kilnegh in County Cork; this is followed by an extended description of life at Willie's boarding school--a passage that is too long and distracting, and reads, with its contrived nicknames for masters (Mad Mack, Hopeless Gibbon) and standard schoolboy fare, too much like an inserted set-piece; finally there is the massacre which turns Willie's mother to alcohol and then suicide. This leads to an act of revenge that forces him to remain abroad for most of his life, and which drives his first inquisitive, then mute daughter into...
...Roosevelt gripped the reading clerk's stand, flipped open his black, loose-leaf schoolboy's notebook. He took a long, steady look at the Congress and the battery of floodlights, and began to read...
...entry: You Can Do the Cube (Penguin; $1.95) by Patrick Bossert, 13, a London schoolboy who discovered the cube only this spring during a family ski vacation in Switzerland. Within five days he had mastered the monster, and later began selling his schoolmates a four-page, mimeographed tip sheet for 450. An alert editor at Penguin saw a copy and persuaded the prodigy to turn pro. The 112-page result contains three dozen "tricks" for solving the cube (using logic rather than math), as well as a chapter on "Cube Maintenance" (to loosen a stiff cube, "put a blob...
Such precautions and even more extreme ones do not mean that U.S. businessmen are succumbing to a kind of mass paranoia. So far, no one is known to have tapped a rival's computer over long-distance telephone lines, like Milwaukee's schoolboy 414 Gang. But the fact is that many companies, especially those in highly competitive industries, are frequently the targets of espionage activities...
...They're a team composed of people who don't have bad games," said Shattuck. The Lions have added a U.S. junior national team member and an English schoolboy international player to the lineup that edged the booters 2-1 in overtime last season...