Word: blackboarding
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...these great events was only dimly heard in Wu's classroom. Wu was a bright pupil. Because he was the smallest boy in his class, he was invariably seated in the first row where he could get a better view of the blackboard. Next to him in the front row usually sat a mandarin's son named Chou Enlai...
...last January, the policymakers had drawn the broad outlines of U.S. action in case of Korean invasion: the quick recourse to the United Nations Security Council and the dispatch of arms aid (which the President had set in motion soon after the Communists began rolling). But in its blackboard arguments, NSC had never been able to make up its mind about sending U.S. troops. Infantryman Omar Bradley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs, had held that Korea wasn't worth it from the standpoint of pure military strategy; the State Department-backed by the Navy-had said it very well...
...each in turn had pit stops to make too, and by the 115th lap Johnnie Parsons was back in front again. Before the race Johnnie had asked his pit crew to watch the sky for signs of rain, give him the high sign (two vertical arrows) on the communications blackboard in his pit. Johnnie caught sight of the big black cloud at about the 300-mile mark, before his pit crew...
...things are said that can be written down on a blackboard, and few things are written down that can be expressed in a picture. Coke sales promotion men put out a slide film on any subject under Coca-Cola's sun (the way lesser men might toss off a memo). Often, a message is too important even for the screen and live drama is used: any good Coke sales promotion man is ready, like a veteran stock actor, to jump into any number of roles at the drop of a bottle...
...Intermountain's beginners, teachers had to use every bit of their ingenuity to make sense of their courses. English teachers cut out carefully labeled pictures of beds, chairs, tables, houses, barns and animals, and pasted them on the walls. Arithmetic teachers played grocery store, tried to relate their blackboard figures to matters their pupils would understand ("We must keep these numbers in a row just like rows of soldiers, or just like horses walking to a water hole"). Counselors pinned up posters that hammered at the homely rules of hygiene...