Word: attending
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Supreme Court finally decided to hear the Texas suit; it is a classic case of discrimination by pocketbook. The suit was brought by a group of parents led by Demetrio P. Rodriguez, a civil service worker at Kelly Air Force Base whose two children attend Edgewood elementary school in a predominantly Mexican-American section of San Antonio. Rodriguez visited the school in 1968 and found that water fountains did not work, bathrooms had no toilet paper, science rooms had no sinks and the library was short of books. Moreover, the school's dropout rate...
Discounting the usual nostalgia and regret that well up in seniors around commencement time, I have nonetheless often been haunted by the intensity with which this senior spoke, almost as if pleading with me at the beginning of my career as a teacher to attend to the problem, to make things different. I thought it an unfair request, of course, especially since the fault seemed to me to lie entirely with him. He obviously hadn't had the sense to "take advantage" of the great resources of Harvard...
...Listen." Both Secretary of State William Rogers and Presidential Assistant Henry Kissinger, who might well have agreed with Mrs. Tuchman's observation, were too busy to attend...
...kind of menopause. Who knows if it will be fatal? If amnesty were declared in the next five years, I don't think I'd go back." In fact, Johnson says, the only reason he would want to go back would be to attend his grandmother's funeral when she dies...
...lecture sections. This spring, Doering will teach the more difficult lecture section, composed mostly of about 75 students who received grades of B+ or above at mid-year. These students will not be assigned to a regular teaching fellow, but will be allowed to attend sessions with some teaching fellow about once a week to discuss their problems with the course...