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Like a Dickensian orphan, the Teacher Corps has teetered on the brink of starvation from birth. The program to send federally recruited, federally paid teachers into the nation's worst slum schools came into being in 1965, almost as an afterthought to a larger education bill. Congress left the program's gruel bowl empty of dollars until the following year, then handed it a subsistence diet that was due to run out last week and seemed most unlikely to be replenished...
...prudent afterthought. Back in Saigon, Thieu announced that it was "entirely possible" that he, too, might enter the lists. After all, he said, "we want a hard campaign, with as many candidates as possible." Thieu allowed as how he had an informal election staff already at work and planned a number of "inspection tours" throughout Viet Nam in June, but as a matter of "little tactics" might delay a formal declaration of his candidacy until the July 5 filing deadline. It all spoke well for Viet Nam's evolving sense of democracy, if perhaps not so well...
...Kerr is essentially a crowd-pleaser," Simon said. "I take my hat off to him." Then, as an afterthought, Simon conceded that "I never wear...
...sibilants shows us how much Falstaff loves the sound of his own voice. But, being old and fat and short of breath, he must speak in spurts. Time and again Kilty will seem to end a sentence, make to move, and then turn back as though to add an afterthought. This is Falstaff exactly, one who loves to spout a comment and then vary it, amend it, augment it, or top it -- and one who, as Milton said of Belial, "could make the worse appear/The better reason, to perplex and dash/Maturest counsels...
...inspector general from the home office. He was received well enough-except in one exchange with an unseen underground Egyptian worker at the dam site. Peering into a 100-ft. hole, Kosygin was startled by a hollow cry from within: "Long live Nasser! Long live Gamal!" Then, as an afterthought, "Welcome, Kosygin...