"Hard time makes the boy the man, " Elmore said afterward, and it felt to Peter like dad was writing a line in a story.
But in contemporary society, we have trouble talking about the obvious: The transition from boy to man is a risky endeavor, and there can be a lot of collateral damage.
"It was clear to me he had made the transformation from a boy into a man and a leader prepared to make the ultimate sacrifice for his country, " Littrell said.
When an investment is made in a girl or woman, she invests 90 percent into her families, as opposed to the 30 to 40 percent that a boy or a man would invest.
When SWAT agents stormed the bunker to rescue the boy from the man's property in the rural Alabama community of Midland City, Dykes "engaged in a firefight with the SWAT agents, " Pack added.
When, in a jolly tale, a boy sees half a man fall down the chimney, are you supposed to get upset?
One crowded Friday evening, I looked up to find a teenaged boy and a short man on the other side of my check-in podium.
Please note, the variation between girls and girls and boys and boys, men and men, women and women, is greater than the variation between the average boy and girl, man and woman, in these attitudes.
This sense of existential angst takes literal form when Sam is made an errand boy, and later called one quite directly to his face, told in fact that all he really ever was in the past was an errand boy, not a man of consequence (so to speak).
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Similarly, during the October 2002 Washington-area sniper investigation, the African-American man and boy ultimately accused of the crime reportedly were able to pass through multiple road blocks with the alleged murder weapon in their possession, in part, because police 'profilers' theorized the crime had been committed by a white male acting alone.
Mrs Burleigh said as an infant she remembered seeing a man with a boy turn up one day.
People have gathered in Canterbury to pay tribute to a man and a boy who drowned at a pond in the city.
The team of Pete Docter and Bob Peterson, who wrote and directed, keep their eye on the story and on the bond between the old man and the boy.
Paxton lays on the hick ingratiation, but midway through, he shows how this good ole boy grows into a good ole man.
The Imposter, a real-life tale of a missing American boy and the foreign-accented man who - years later - claimed to be him, was named best documentary.
By the sixth form, he had gone from a quiet studious boy to a popular outgoing young man, known among friends as the life and soul of a party.
Mrs Nadin said the examiner had been at the National League match, between the Warwickshire Bears and the Essex Eagles, from start to finish, with another man and a teenage boy.
He has been in possession of them since winning a case in April 2010 against the Boy Scouts on behalf of a man who was molested in the 1980s by an assistant scoutmaster already known to have abused other boys.
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An amalgam of "Oliver Twist, " "The Three Musketeers" and Bollywood extravagance, it's the saga -- mainly in English, plus some subtitled Hindi -- of a wretchedly poor Muslim boy, played as a young man by Dev Patel, who pulls himself up by his brains instead of his bootstraps, and gets a shot at becoming a millionaire on a wondrously garish Indian TV quiz show.
By contrast, Mr Madelin, a Renault factory worker's boy, can claim to be a man of the people.
And then, I know that I heard the voice of God say, Andrae, boy, I kept you here, man.
Plucked from a boy's home, he was a man-child who grew into an American icon.
Not a man, either, just a boy of eighteen or twenty, fairly thickset and not at all feminine.
"If you look at a 14-year-old boy and a 20-year-old man, you're talking about a different sport almost, " says Maes.
Mr Roh has been reluctant to strike a deal with a man he regards as a rich boy, isolated from the daily concerns of ordinary people.
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A., man Friday, driver, delivery boy, confidant, and crying towel.
The revival of Clifford Odets' "Golden Boy, " a play about a young man torn between his natural talent as a violinist and the fast money and fame of being a boxer, earned eight nominations, the most for any play.
We can ensure every man and woman, every girl and boy has an opportunity on the playing field of life.
In Beijing he was ignored, just a man riding a thirdhand bicycle with a chubby boy on the back.
He was no longer the slender boy who had enlisted nine years earlier but a thickset man, with shaggy hair and an untamed beard.
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