Word: alphabetizes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...LEAVING ROOM / had made my living by cadging odd jobs from newspapers, by reporting a donkey show here or a wedding there; I had earned a few pounds by addressing envelopes, reading to old ladies, making artificial flowers, teaching the alphabet to small children in a kindergarten ... I need not, I am afraid, describe in any detail the hardness of the work, for you know perhaps women who have done it; nor the difficulty of living on the money when it was earned, for you may have tried. But what still remains with me as a worse infliction than either...
...skilled four-character cast at Manhattan's Quaigh Theater becomes a trifle overwrought, Livingstone and Sechele is a fascinating study of culture clash. The opening scene is like a child's Garden of Eden. Sechele (Afemo) and his fifth wife Mokokon (Esther Ryvlin) are singing the alphabet under the tutelage of Livingstone (Mike Champagne) and his wife Mary (Prudence Wright Holmes...
...leukemia complications; in Lancaster, S.C. A college dropout, Townsend found his calling in Guatemala in 1917 when he tried to sell Bibles written in Spanish to Indians who spoke only Cakchiquel. He learned the language, then during the next twelve years, with no formal linguistic training, developed an alphabet that he used to write a Cakchiquel translation of the New Testament. In 1935 he co-founded the nonprofit, nonsectarian Wycliffe Bible Translators Inc., which has repeated the process for 90 previously illiterate tribes...
...Cambridge, Mass., Harrington Elementary School, the gooey classrooms are broken down into "learning centers." In one, a first-grader fits pieces of an alphabet puzzle together. Near by, two girls dressed up in oversized high-heel shoes set a dinner table. A small group, with a teaching assistant acting as secretary, dictates words that will eventually make a whole story. Says Teacher Louise Grant: "Children need opportunities to express their own thoughts. The learning process is easier because there is an interest...
...essay on the alphabet, Kim throws another curveball. "Why do we call 'G' and 'g' the same letter when their shapes are so different?" he asks. "Look around at the alphabets in books and signs. If you think you understand what they all have in common, just try explaining how to recognize the letter 'G' to a non-Roman-alphabet-using person. Can you explain it without using pictures...