... better stab of FEAR every time he heard a rooster crow? I don't know. But we do know what fear caused him to do. Molly Ivins tells a story "The Fun's in the Fight," about two little boys, Johnny and Boots, that really gives good insight into the kind of ... have felt. When Johnny and Boots were 6 and 7 respectively and growing up in Texas, they played Texas Rangers in the back yard. Johnny's mother, wanting to take advantage of having law enforcement officers on the place, asked them to go to the henhouse and ...
... neither the devil nor every demon, nor Caesar and all of his armies, could have stopped that boat. You may as well have named her "The Unsinkable Molly Brown." You see, if that boat had not made it to the other side, regardless of the reason, then Jesus would have been a liar. Well, ... accompanied by the most modern fire- fighting equipment available, but not one of the trucks could get within 200 yards of the blaze because the heat was just too intense and the fire was too big. Finally, the Calcutta ...
I lived for a portion of my childhood in Bath, Maine. There are many notable things about this small city on the Kennebec River, but is perhaps best known for its ships. In the late 1800s and early 1900s it was full of shipyards that built all kinds of wooden sailing vessels. Now it has just one shipyard, Bath Iron Works, which is a huge facility that builds destroyers and frigates for the US Navy. Much of the work is done outside, and it was great fun to watch the pieces of the ship come together like a ...
