boyhood
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“Peck & Peck” is the name of the eponymous poetry magazine Batter has idolized since boyhood, but it’s fallen on hard times.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026
My boyhood hero was Hubert Humphrey, a leader in civil rights and arms control.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
It teaches the difference between boyhood and manhood, between self-indulgence and self-restraint.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
With the transfer window closing on Tuesday night, it now looks certain Rashford will remain at his boyhood club.
From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026
Right from his boyhood, people had seen the restlessness in him.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
Their locks are scruffy, scraggly; tousled for the boys, and wispy for those whose boyhoods were long ago.
From New York Times ● Aug. 24, 2022
Calipari gushed about Krzyzewski’s triumphs with the national team, and the coaches bonded over their Catholic-influenced boyhoods and their affinity for legendary coaches.
From New York Times ● Mar. 15, 2017
The Bradford of their boyhoods had clean sidewalks and flowers in the alley.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 26, 2017
It is the story of one of the most desolate boyhoods in all fiction.
From Time Magazine Archive
Their education complemented their uniquely American facility with machines and technology, for they had spent their boyhoods surrounded by mechanical gadgetry: farm machines, radios, and cars.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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