Word: acton
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Acton, Mass...
...Pickled Bat. Elsewhere one-room teachers, more open to new methods, take advantage of their unique situation to create a modern ideal: the ungraded school. In a five-year-old, electrically heated brick school amid the rolling hills of Acton, Mont., 20 miles from Billings, Mrs. Lorna McKenney, 40, lets her nine pupils ignore grade lines, develop at any pace they can. Lugene Ivie, in her second year, reads so fast she stumbles over the words...
...being held prisoner here. I am One Hundred and 11 year old and if I had my single acton Colt's I wd shoot my way out but I aint got it. Being your a riter and all I will sell my story for 50 Thousand dollar which I figure to be cheap...
...suppose the intelligent thing to have done would have been to be a little more false and flowery," groused Stirling Moss, 33, after Acton (West London) Chief Driving Examiner Cyril Smith flunked him in his bid to renew a lapsed motor-scooter license. But he could still buzz around with the red "L" learner plates on the purple scooter. And there went the retired auto-racing champion, looking pretty purple himself in top hat and tails-until he explained that he was on his way to his sister's wedding reception...
...another personal cult is precisely what we do not need. Hero worship is not only unbecoming but unhelpful. It can only lead to an unhealthy disillusionment as President Kennedy engages in the awkward shifts, evasions and compromises that inevitably accompany the exercise of great power. Let us remember Lord Acton-and take care...