Word: aloftness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Students at each school are separated into 15 groups, which engage in a weekly competition, judged by the teachers, for neatness, attentiveness in class, and work performance in the fields. The top three groups are awarded flags that they carry proudly aloft as they march out to the fields and back again...
...fact, views are not so much exchanged as imposed. The classroom ambience is strict, and the rote method of learning prevails. A question is asked. Hands are raised aloft by students eager to give the answer...
...They go aloft in spiffy Cessna 310s and cruise the highways in Cadillacs and Lincolns. In bays and harbors, they make waves with rakish speedboats and cabin cruisers. They are Florida's modestly paid drug agents; yet their planes, cars and boats are among the best that money can buy-certainly better than the usual Government issue. For good reason. The expensive equipment once belonged to the smugglers themselves...
...also says, "SAVAK would sometimes dismember children of suspected political dissenters to gain confessions. They held some of the children aloft and proudly exhibited their own scars and stumps." This is an outrageous statement. Did he ever witness this extraordinary process? Even though he may have been exposed to certain scars and stumps on certain children, these could be the results of other unrelated incidents...