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Little Boy
noun
- the code name for the uranium-fueled atomic bomb dropped by the U.S. on Hiroshima in 1945.
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Furman, who rode alongside Little Boy’s uranium ore across an ocean, was part of the Alsos Mission.
One image in the film also stuck in my craw: a shot of a little boy in the audience holding up his white stuffed unicorn.
“She told me, ‘When your dad dies you will suffer a lot,’” the little boy told Ferreira.
He gracefully lifts a little boy in the air and poses for a picture.
So they let the little boy run away from home; then they didn't go look for him.
I heard one of his early records when I was a little boy, and it scared me to death.
A little boy of four was moved to passionate grief at the sight of a dead dog taken from a pond.
A little boy aged two years and four months was deprived of a pencil from Thursday to Sunday for scribbling on the wall-paper.
The little boy of two, often quoted here, showed a punctilious feeling for order in the placing of things.
A little boy of two years and one month was once asked to give a lot of old toys to the children of the gardener.
A little boy had been quarrelling with his sister named Muriel just before going to bed.
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