Sentences with phrase «armies of small boys»

In the city, men with names like Artie, Dinty, Tim, Sal and Sol have sat on rooftops, seemingly for generations, talking pigeons, and for year after year their ranks have been recruited from armies of small boys sneaking up for a look at the lofts.

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The story of Army hero Charles N. DeGlopper reads like a Hollywood script: A small town boy joins the Army in World War II and gives his life to save his platoon, stepping out into the open to fight the Germans alone and stopping them from taking control of a strategic bridge in the Normandy campaign.

And it's worth a lot, as is the emotional investment of billions of fans worldwide in the boy wizard Harry Potter and the marvelous, sometimes macabre inventions of author J.K. Rowling, brought to such vivid life onscreen by a small army of professional dreamers.