Word: schoolchild
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...every American schoolchild knows, the highest mountain in North America is Alaska's Mount McKinley (elevation: 20,320 ft., a mere 8,708 ft. lower than the Himalayas' Mount Everest). But centuries before paleface cartographers gave the peak that name, Alaskan Indians, Aleuts and Eskimos called it by another: Denali, or "the Great One" in the Athabascan Indian dialect. Now native Alaskans are lobbying hard to restore the original Indian name. The state legislature has adopted a resolution to rechristen the mountain Denali, and both Governor Jay Hammond and Senator Mike Gravel are campaigning to persuade...
With his new marshal's uniform decked out in numerous awards and medals, with his name glorified in official journals and his words studied by every Russian schoolchild, Brezhnev can scarcely avoid the charge that he has created a cult of personality that may soon rival that of Stalin or Mao. Brezhnev is comfortable in his hero's role, but, particularly in the Soviet Union, fame is fleeting. Stalin's name is not often mentioned, and Khrushchev's has been expunged from the official language. Yet when Khrushchev celebrated his own 70th birthday...
...Every schoolchild who has studied American history knows that Washington was accused of showing royalist leanings by cavalier treatment of his fellow citizens. Actually, modern Presidents are far less accessible-even Gerald Ford, despite his genuine efforts to create a more open presidency...
...certainly the most important historical portrait in the Western Hemi sphere. Every schoolchild knows it. And, quite frankly, it doesn't matter whether it was literally painted by Gil bert Stuart himself...
...high school graduates who spend most of their two-year military service teaching school. The corps has a program in which teachers travel with nomadic tribesmen and at each stop pitch a white school tent alongside the tribes' black goat-hair tents. The Shah also decided that each schoolchild should have a free daily glass of milk - an impossible task for the country's modest dairy industry. Even imported powdered milk would not improve the situation...