Word: textbook
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scramble to grab off Dunn was a textbook piece on the ancient art of recruiting. In the modest Dunn home, the phone jangled steadily with long-distance calls placed by nearly every major-college coach in the South, from Alabama's Paul Bryant to Arkansas' Frank Broyles. From Dartmouth came a circumspect and indirect inquiry. Notre Dame forwarded plane tickets to the Southern California game (Perry Lee mailed them right back: "I don't much like cold weather"), and victory-starved Mississippi State sent a plaintive note ("We all hope and pray that you will come with...
...triumvirate give anti-Communists no cause for comfort. Antonio Núñez Jiménez, chief of INRA's land redistribution program, once led the campaign for a Communist candidate for Congress, later wrote a Marxist Geography of Cuba that is now a standard textbook in Cuban schools. Another force is Celia Sánchez,* Castro's onetime Girl Friday in the hills, who offers a patient ear and a radicalism as woolly as Castro's own. Her apartment, where she keeps a freshly laundered shirt for him and a maid to prepare his favorite fish...
From his teaching experience in Humanities 124-5, Buttrick hopes also to assemble a textbook on the New Testament and "Biblical Thinking and the Mind of Today...
Other new procedures in the teaching of language are being worked on by the SUPRAD experimenters at the Newton High School. These involve the use of 36 long-playing records for French I and II containing the vocabulary and idioms of the textbook reworked into short conversations. The pupil will sign out a new record every two lessons, and part of his assignment each day will be a section of the record to do at home...
...leotards have passed the fad stage, and some manufacturers report shipments running 30% ahead of last year. To go with the tights, stores are pushing boots with raccoon trim, corduroy or plaid coverings. Back-to-school teen-agers have also taken to some nonclothing fads. Among them: plastic-coated textbook covers with zany titles such as "Embalming Can Be Fun," by "Maude Lynn...