Word: classing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1980
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
ANDERSON STANDS out as the class of the Republican field but he still belongs in it. In his first six years in the House, the reactionary Americans for Constitutional Action gave him an average approval rating of 88 per cent. His views have moderated since then, but even in the past three years, the AFL-CIO's committee on political education gave him an average rating of only 32 per cent, in part for his vote against the Common Situs bill, a measure that would have allowed unions with a greivance against one contractor to picket all the contractors...
...sickness is easily transmitted, he said, adding, "If two kids are sneezing in the morning, by noon-time the class could be wiped...
...practice, the law would simply create chaos in the classroom, confusing younger children and making cynics of older ones. What would happen if most of the class decided to leave the room during a prayer? If several children want to lead prayers in different religions, how does the teacher decide which should lead the class? If several students lead prayers, will their poers tramp in and out of the room as each faith gets its time in class? Recognizing these and similar problems, the Cambridge school superintendent has rightly decided to delay implementing the law until the courts pass...
Tickner came to serious skating at an age when most coaches felt he was too old to reach world-class standards: during his freshman year in college. He had to go back to work on his compulsory figures, those painstaking loops and turns that judges squat to scrutinize like the Rosetta stone. He has never caught up with the class; school figures remain his weakest point. But naysayers who insist that the double lutzes and triple salchows are jumps that have to be grooved into muscle memory before a boy is old enough to shave have been proved wrong...
...early student of the rich, Cecil was following the adventures of dukes and duchesses in the society magazines while other middle-class boys were reading about cowboys and Indians. Theirs was a fantasy world he longed for, and after leaving Cambridge, he found his entree - the camera. His lushly romantic portraits, with just a touch of surrealism, be came fashionable on both sides of the Atlantic; eventually he became the favor ite photographer of the British royal family. Country houses opened their doors to him, and Mayfair hostesses vied for his company. He had entered, in short, into snob heaven...