Word: according
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...good part of America laxity in this area is the fault of administrators who do not accord it as important a position in the curriculum as it deserves. A good part too is the fault of teachers who make language training an unpleasant chore or merely a set of grammatical constructs. Some strides are being made in speaking the language from the start--the easiest, fastest, most thorough and most enjoyable way to learn; as the language becomes meaningful and can overcome a student's natural laziness or disinterest. It is still not enough to provide a much-needed tool...
...Gibraltar. The next day the President himself answered Challenger McCarthy. "I am in full accord with Secretary Dulles," he told newsmen. If the U.S.. he said, "should turn impatiently to coercion of other free nations [it] would be a mark of the imperialist rather than of the leader...
Robert Burns followed his regimen so strenuously that at his death in 1796, he was known not only as Caledonia's bard but as the Scottish Casanova. Popular legend made him a victim of wine, women and song. Less censorious, and more in accord with modern views, Byron saw Burns forever riding the pendulum of a split personality: "Sentiment, sensuality, soaring and groveling, dirt and deity." Some of the best evidence for and against Burns the man-his robust, personable letters-has been sifted for the first time in two decades by a Brooklyn College English professor, DeLancey Ferguson...
...books and clothes, gave him $6 for gasoline money and escorted him out to his car. "We can't force you to leave," Clark remembers someone saying, "but we'll make it so unpleasant for you around here that you'll leave of your own accord after two or three weeks.'' Then, as Clark drove off, an Aggie band struck up the Oklahoma fight song, Boomer Sooner...
...widely condemned. The most important group in favor of the plan was the World Communist Party. F.D.R. soon abandoned it. Churchill, who had believed from the first that it would never become a reality, reported in the latest volume of his memoirs, with obvious satisfaction: "With my full accord, the idea of 'pastoralizing' Germany did not survive...