Word: blackboarding
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...Maison Blanche, a forlorn, peeling stucco villa overlooking Cap St. Jacques on the South China Sea, 58 officers of South Viet Nam's Military Revolutionary Council sat on hard, schoolroom-style chairs and scribbled their votes on the ballots. A colonel chalked up the results on a blackboard: Khanh, 50; Defense Minister General Tran Thien Khiem, 5; General Duong Van ("Big") Minh, 1; General Do Cao Tri, 1: blank ballot...
...Vick Chemical Co., the curriculum goes on to economics and business cycles, population problems and consumer behavior, ends with two weeks of "Executives in Action," a study of company goals, managerial decision making and corporate strategy. All this calls for 3½-hour morning sessions in front of the blackboard, three weekly afternoon lectures by guest speakers, and evening seminars for small groups to work over case histories of business problems. Homework, with a three-foot pile of books, often takes more evening hours...
...freight loader in Edge of the City was both laughing boy and leader, with the universal quality that inspires followers, much like the high school student he played in Blackboard Jungle. His trapped, foolish, ambitious, odds-against-him young husband in A Raisin in the Sun was an agonized study in subhysterical frustration. In Lilies of the Field, his smolderings are banked far down beneath the surface of his easygoing life, but he manages to reveal them in a word here, a gesture there...
...sunny Miami Beach morning seemed perfect for a swim. But from his lookout perch, Lifeguard Al Moore spotted some purplish blobs-Portuguese men-of-war were drifting shoreward. Moore chalked up a warning on a big blackboard at the Biltmore Terrace Hotel: "Danger-No Ocean Bathing Today...
...title of "King of Torts" by his masterful presentation of medical evidence that has won his clients awards as high as $675,000 in personal injury cases. His chief strategy has been "demonstrative evidence"-graphic, often grisly visual aids-human skeletons, elaborate anatomical models, huge photographic blowups, and the blackboard he regularly brings into court...