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Stories Collection

- Toaster Oh Toaster
Toaster oh Toaster,
you always pop in my face.
Ever...
- "I think that old limb should be cut off," said the farmer's son one after...
- 1. Cut out a heart from white construction paper.
2. Use a white crayon to deco...
- In 1908 Charles H. Sternberg and his three sons hunted big game in Wyoming. They wer...
- A palindrome is a word or phrase that reads the same backward or forward.
bib ...
- Mom: Oh, dear! The storm cut off the power.
Dad: I can't use my computer.
...
- Collect eighteen plastic shopping bags for this craft. Always keep plastic bags away...
- Ma found some string.
She cut it into pieces.
"Let's make string fig...
- When Abraham Lincoln was President of the United States, Senator Charles Sumner visi...
- Our youngest children learn alarming lessons about men and boys from the many movies ...
- BEFORE HURRICANE KATRINA flooded the tear ducts of our politicians and the vaults of ...
- PRES. GEORGE W. BUSH'S proposal on immigration delivered during his State of the Unio...
- Congress and the Declaration of Independence, 1775-76. I found at my arrival all Amer...
- IN MARCH OF 1907, when the Detroit Tigers' Ty Cobb arrived in camp, it was not as a h...
- IN THE COLD-WEATHER MONTHS, during the local Youth League-sponsored street hockey sea...
- In the Sept. 6, 2004, issue of Army Times, Robert F. Dorr made some interesting obser...
- A town in western Canada planned a monument to American draft dodgers from the Vietna...
- In September, the architectural firm of Polshek Partnership Architects was Selected t...
- Help is available for America's atomic vets. Nearly 200,000 GIs occupied Hiroshima an...
- In an effort to determine if U.S. POWs from the Korean and Vietnam wars were held in ...
- Listed below are VFW's official positions on national issues. They are based on natio...
- Many Americans would like to be president, but only the fewest have a presidential-gr...
- Next month, 1,000 of my closest friends and I will begin our senior year at Columbia....
- Major thanks are due to Steven Waldman for his illuminating article about the passion...
- Everyone is worried about Iran--and with good reason. But I worry even more about Pak...
- The American Foreign Service Association presents four annual awards for "constr...
- The Earned Income Tax Credit promised to be a great boon for the working poor, the ve...
- Byline: Jose Antonio Vargas
Who won the Moon Man trophies? More importantly, who d...
- Byline: Ben Klemens
The Patent Reform Act of 2006 (S.3818), introduced to the Senat...
- Byline: Dan Froomkin
White House Briefing is going dark next week (back on Tuesday,...
- Byline: Lisa de Moraes
Post TV Columnist Lisa de Moraes was online Friday, Aug. 25,...
- Byline: Celia Welch
Redecorating might seem easy -- just apply fresh paint and buy ...
- Byline: Lily Garcia
What are some good interview questions that will get an employe...
- February 8, 2006
President Bush. Your Majesty, welcome back. I have had two good di...
- February 9, 2006
President Bush. Mr. President, welcome to the Oval Office. It's re...
- February 9, 2006
Claude Allen has been a trusted adviser since 2001. As Deputy Secr...
- The following list does not include promotions of members of the Uniformed Services, ...
- February 1, 2006
Five years ago, I announced the New Freedom Initiative to build on...
- February 2, 2006
The President. Thank you ,all. Please be seated. Thanks for the wa...
- Byline: David Aikman
Haifa, Israel HAIFA IS STRONG," reads the placard attache...
- Byline: Charlotte Allen
Elia Kazan A Biography by Richard Schickel HarperCollins, 5...
- Byline: Judy Bachrach
The Hollywood Book of Breakups by James Robert Parish Wiley, ...
- Byline: Martha Bayles
Paul Klee and America The Phillips Collection, Washington, u...
- Byline: Claudia Anderson
Eating dinner at a modest restaurant a block from our hous...
- Byline: Matthew Continetti
Hartford, Conn. Shortly after the polls closed on August...
- Over the last few years, Greg Brown has grabbed a lot of people's attention, and it's...
- Over the last few years, Greg Brown has grabbed a lot of people's attention, and it's...
- Over the last few years, Greg Brown has grabbed a lot of people's attention, and it's...
- Over the last few years, Greg Brown has grabbed a lot of people's attention, and it's...
- The Zulu call it a squashbox, in Germany it's been called a pig-organ, Mark Twain cal...
- Over the last few years, Greg Brown has grabbed a lot of people's attention, and it's...
- JORDAN: A DUAL VIOLATION OF WOMEN'S CIVIL RIGHTS
BY RANA HUSSEINI, FROM 'AL-RAIDA',...
- WOMEN OF CHINA
15 Jianguomennei Dajie, Beijing 100730, PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA
...
- WIN NEWS will cease publication with the AUTUMN Issue--which will be our last one aft...
- 733 15th St., NW, 2nd Floor, Washington, DC 20005
FROM 'NATIONAL NOW TIMES':
"Thi...
- FROM FEMINIST DAILY NEWS WIRE (May 30, 2003), THE FEMINIST MAJORITY FOUNDATION 1600 W...
- FEMINIST DAILY NEWS WIRE (April 16, 2003), THE FEMINIST MAJORITY FOUNDATION 1600 Wils...
- The Winter 2005/06 edition of the President's column was devoted to a recapitulation ...
- The dawn of the 21st century heralded the start of a new era for American carrier bas...
- Introduction
Fleet Forces Command has two primary missions. The first is to generate...
- Editor's note: As noted in the last issue of Wings of Gold, among the unfunded requir...
- Korean War Corsairs
I would like to hear from anyone associated with the F4U Corsair...
- Because NAF will not be holding a reunion meeting/convention in 2006 there will be no...
- Better Red Than Dead
Charlotte Hays
IN THE MID 1970s, when a sniper climbed onto ...
- Return of the Guy
Charlotte Allen says that manhood is back in fashion.
Now, afte...
- Booby Traps at the Pentagon.
Charmaine and Jack Yoest introduce you to the Pentagon...
- Sex and Bondage 101
Candace de Russy on the new academic frontier
THE SEX MOVEMEN...
- That's No White Male, That's My Husband!
Ellen Ladowsky explains why women will del...
- I Knew JFK and Clinton's No JFK
Taki on the President's womanizing.
TRY AS I MIGH...
- Civil-military relations have become an object of universal concern in the postmodern...
- Books under Review
Patricia Verdugo, Allende: Como la Casa Blanca provoco su muerte...
- During the late 1940s, the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan brought U.S. militar...
- Recently, several analysts have argued that Russia is "a normal country" ju...
- It cannot be repeated often enough: the raison d'etre of the European project is to m...
- Throughout the 1990s, there was much discussion on what should be the main priority f...
- Liberal theology is not for the faint of heart. It points us in a general direction w...
- John Dickinson began to paint after a career in business. "From my earliest time," he...
- Sometimes it's fun to do something without knowing how it is going to turn out. The p...
- THE SPONTANEOUS IGNITION OF A CONGA X line in the closing ceremony of the UUA General...
- When First Parish UU in Bedford, Massachusetts, put a banner on their church saying "...
- UU Veatch Program grants build foundations for lasting change.
WHEN THE MONGOL WARRIO...
- The Virginia Historical Society recently heard wonderful news from the prestigious Kr...
- The annual meeting of the VHS took place on April 29 in the new Robins Family Forum i...
- The cover of the current Virginia Magazine of History and biography reproduces an ear...
- Illuminated by this logo projected onto the building facade (lower right), our celebr...
- After their army surrendered at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865, the defeated...
- The second in the "We'll see You in Class" educational series will be offered on Thur...
- I recently had occasion to explain to a customer that very few people understand how ...
- [Editor's Note: In his article, "Freedom and Liberty," Robert LeFevre (LeFevre's JOUR...
- Are there any among us who would not decry the repugnancy of slavery? I am assuming, ...
- We shall be told: what can literature possibly do against the ruthless onslaught of o...
- [Author's Introduction of February 2004: This hitherto unpublished essay was first wr...
- "When in the Course of human events" a child is born is it morally proper for the chi...
- The little boy went first day of school
He got some crayons and started to draw
He pu...
- I. Introduction
Pervasive Computing (PerC) is what happens when the Internet gets ubi...
- The result of all this is that the good Samaritan who tries to help may find himself ...
- Reputation, reputation, reputation! O, I have lost my reputation! I have lost the imm...
- The Washington Post once had an advertising slogan for its home delivery service that...
- Abstract
This Article is an intellectual history of classical contracts scholar Samue...
- When a prospective student is looking to attend a culinary or hospitality school, the...
- Tobacco prevention curricu a are excellent resources to present facts and prevention ...
- From Cucumber to Pickle
Where Does Food Come From? A Marketing DiIlemma is a fun less...
- In today's world of growing obesity, food science classes offer a safe environment to...
- How can you make sex education classes fun? How do you provide opportunities for stud...
- Do you think your students are ready to live independently? Here are some things they...
- ABSTRACT
Despite numerous studies focused on presidential success in the legislativ...
- ABSTRACT
America's current war on terrorism has led presidency scholars to revisit ...
- ABSTRACT
For all of the concern over the role of money in American politics, Presid...
- ABSTRACT
At a time when Catholics and Jews were often held in contempt and discrimi...
- How The Word Among Us Came About
As we celebrate our twenty-fifth anniversary, I want...
- The beginning of a new year is traditionally a time to reflect on our lives. It's als...
- Two Testimonies to God's Power
To mark our twenty-fifth year, we asked readers to tel...
- 25 Years of Milestones for The Word Among Us
Now that you have a sense of how we got ...
- Discovering the Treasures in Jesus' Parables
At nineteen I received my first string f...
- What Is the Message of The Word Among Us?
St. Luke tells us that when the Holy Spirit...
- Emma walked down the stairs with a big piece of clean, white paper.
"I'm g...
- I thought I saw a leprechaun
Last St. Patrick's Day.
I blinked my eyes, I sho...
- [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]
Rachel Leuthold, Age 8 Bern, Kansas
What sound do ...
- Caleb Howard, Age 9 Moscow, Russia
What Is It?
What is something that he...
- Bonjour!
Qu'est-ce que c'est?
Est-ce un chat?
Non, ce n'est pas un chat...
- I made a bird blush,
Oh, it's true.
He blushed
When I told him,
"...
- Everybody in Rory's class had a Funny-but-True story to tell. The teacher, Mrs. Evan...
- Cut four small squares of paper and mark them A, B, C, and D. Lay them on the back o...
- I was eighteen the summer I worked on a ranch in southern New Mexico. My rancher-fat...
- One winter-thawing morning in March, Sarah put on her old spring coat to go out and ...
- How do you stand up to a bully? Timmy needed to know Sam's secret, but would Sam tel...
- Besides their taste, what good are they?
Sour pork curry from India. Spicy shri...
- It was getting cold in the meadow at the edge of the forest. Bear felt the first sno...
- Until the sea
I did not know
that wind
could wrinkle water so.
I ne...
- Have you ever decoded a secret message? On the Greek island of Crete, in the Mediter...
- Dress up a napkin in a shamrock napkin ring
By Elizabeth Wells
1, On gree...
- Everyone knows about New Year's Eve and Independence Day. But did you know that ther...
- A Party Plan
Invitations
To make "golf ball" invitations, fold ...
- "Go, Denny, go!" my teammates chanted.
I ignored them. I had just ent...
- Tasi watched Martin's gym shoes fly through the cold city air, fled together like da...
- Sacramento Monarchs guard Kara Lawson has been keeping herself plenty busy in the off...
- Dan Hughes was recently named the new coach of the WNBA's San Antonio Silver Stars. H...
- The Charlotte Sting won the fourth annual WNBA Draft Lottery, earning the first pick ...
- Former AAU coach Rick Lopez, 36, who was charged with assaulting underage players, ha...
- All correct entries will be placed into a drawing to win a free NCAA 2004 Women's Fin...
- The National Women's Basketball League (NWBL) kicked off its fifth season in January ...
- WE GET A DISPROPORTIONATE number of letters here at WRESTLING DIGEST criticizing WWE'...
- THE "PHENOMENAL" A.J. Style has made his mark by setting many precedents in the fledg...
- IN AN INDUSTRY THAT HAS HAD more than its share of eccentric personalities, Jim Hellw...
- GRILLING ENTHUSIAST JIM ROSS has opened the door to his life and. family recipes in h...
- THE TAG TEAM OF DANNY AND Doug Basham is quickly making a name for itself in the WWE....
- 1. According to an infamous WWE story line, who was Stephanie McMahon about to be mar...
- Easter morning bright and fair,
Tells me of God's loving care.
Flowers that w...
- I fired the ball toward second. Everyone in the park froze....
Willie wasn't al...
- Spring appears, and with it the eight-day Jewish religious festival called Passover....
- Woozy: I found a gold bracelet.
Mom: Where, Woozy?
Woozy: Right here--out...
- Brighten someone's day with a flowery greeting card
By Olive Howie
1. For...
- This shore is the watery home of many creatures.
The rising sun looked like a h...
- Did You Know? Snapping turtles live in the water but lay their eggs on land. In earl...
- Hop, hop, hop. Rabbit hopped up the forest path. Today was Grandma Badger's birthday...
- Though the house and grounds belonged to my grandparents, the magnificent old banyan...
- When she was ten years old, Rachel Carson knew she wanted to write. But why wait unt...
- An Old Fable
Once a fox was caught in a trap by his tail. He struggled and str...
- Disappearing Bone Mass
I know both astronauts and old people lose bone mass. Wh...
- A cardinal landed beside Jordan's window. "Tweee ... tweet, tweet, tweet,"...
- Carrie Rose hated to wear red. She also disliked hot pink, neon green, and electric ...
- 1. Why is bread lots of fun?
Sarah Hoffman--Houston, Texas
2. Where do ha...
- I'd give anything to draw horses the way Euphemia Tucker does. She draws them in the...
- Have you ever wished that you could make your little sister's teddy bear talk to her...
- Thingyan is celebrated in the hope that the rains will come on time.
So throws...
- Pysanky Egg
Abigail Daurio, Age 8 Littleton, Colorado
Baby Deer
Yo...
- "When I Got Glasses"
I read the letter in "Dear Highlights"...
- "Max! Come here, please," Mom called.
I dropped my suitcase. Mr. O'Ma...
- A beautiful day in May.
The grass is dark green.
The green beans grow long an...
- Some scientists may like salt as a seasoning in their food. But a lot of them like i...
- A bird is never drowned in a flood.
If you pull rope too tight, it snaps.
...
- Talitha's curls bounced as she hopped up the worn concrete steps of the museum, thro...
- Fruit kabobs are fun to make and fun to eat. Spear several small pieces of fruit on ...
- It's springtime, I'm happy!
The birds are all yappy,
and it's cool right next...
- Elephants are highly social animals. In Africa they live together in groups of relat...
- Once upon a time, a prince known for his intolerance of dishonesty ruled in Romania....
- George Nakashima's vision transformed trees into works of art.
George Nakashima...
- Watching Sports
Whenever I watch my favorite sports team on TV, my stomach hurt...
- My favorite book is Mouse Tales by Arnold Lobel. It is seven tales. The first tale i...
- Whispering breeze,
Blow the trees--
Buzz, buzz, buzz,
hum the bees--
...
- One day after berry picking, some friends decided to have a race. They'd start in op...
- Orphaned boys carried a life-saving vaccine to the New World.
"Princess Ma...
- The city at night glimmers as the cars
and trucks run around. With all those
...
- What do you do when you hear music? Do you tap your feet or clap your hands? Maybe y...
- Boy: Why aren't we allowed to feed that bear? This apple won't hurt it.
Ranger...
- Wilderness is a place where things are happening,
Where babies are being born,
...
- Fox and Bear sat on the steps putting on their new skates.
"Here is a book...
- Trees are the kindest things I know,
They do no harm, they simply grow
And sp...
- All that I am, my mother made me.
-- John Quincy Adams
Who ran to help me...
- I hope everyone wakes up to the songs of the
birds!
As they enfold my heart w...
- ?? Buenos dias!
?? Que es eso?
?? Es un automovil?
No, no es un auto...
- 1. Why would Mr. Johnson rather wash a mirror than a window, even if both were the s...
- This game can be played by three or more people.The first person says "one,&quo...
- My cat will
jump off the
bed and
spin like a
tornado
in my house....
- A man hired a carpenter to cut a hole in the door so the cat could pass back and for...
- Television repairman: "The trouble with your television set is a short circuit ...
- Lesa, you have a garden behind my basketball court that grows tomato, zucchini, onio...
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