Word: excellently
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...coal. But the parents had something more valuable than material advantages to give. "We grew up," recalls Dean's elder brother Roger, a University of Tennessee physics professor, "in a strict atmosphere of moral integrity, imposed by both parents and schoolteachers. We were under constant admonition to excel, to go out in the world and do something. Be different, do your best, they told us. We were always striving for excellence...
Public School Grads Excel...
...Without pussyfooting, the group soon made clear its stance. It attacked the theory of education for "life adjustment" as non-education: "The school has neither the chief responsibility nor the means for dealing with all aspects of personal development . . . The school should foster in each student the desire to excel, or at least to do his best. The school is under special obligation to develop the talent and skills needed by the Nation...
...necessity of earning a living, had a duty to make his life worthwhile. Says Rose: "Joe told the children that they had plenty of advantages, but that these advantages carry with them certain obligations." Like the English gentry of the 18th century, the Kennedys expected each son to excel in a different career. There was no question that young Joe, a bright, confident boy and a natural leader, would go into politics and in due course become President of the U.S. As a 25-year-old member of the Massachusetts delegation to the Democratic Convention of 1940, Joe Jr. footnoted...
...dedicated U.S. skindivers are getting ready for their biggest year. They are pro halfbacks, harried housewives, gawky teenagers. Detroit tycoons, retired schoolmarms sunning in Miami. For skindiving has the great virtue of letting each swimmer make his own terms with the deep. With no need to compete or excel, the skindiver can choose a way to have fun beneath the surface that suits his nerve and pocketbook...