Word: blackboarding
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...Lakewood, N. J., Justice Sidney Zweben sentenced a Brooklyn motorist caught passing a school bus to write "I must not pass a school bus in Lakewood" 100 times on the school blackboard...
Actually, Piston's Third was less strident and mechanized than most of the music he has written in the past 20 years. Hostile critics have found his music as bony and bare as a blackboard counterpoint exercise in his Harvard classroom. But the Third had three movements of lyrical tranquillity before bursting into a noisy finale. The finale, said Piston, was written in Vermont while a well-driller was digging an artesian well outside his window. "I had to write the music loud enough to overcome the noise outside," said Piston...
...with stiff collar and ascot tie, Whitehead paced the lecture platform with hands in pockets. Vestigial tufts of white hair fringing a shiny bald pate made him look, said one pupil, "like an angel whose halo had slipped." Now & then Whitehead arrested his pacing to sketch a deceptively simple blackboard diagram of what he called a "prehension" or to explain patiently what he meant by such Whiteheaded concepts as the "form of flux...
Weekend stay-at-homes are invited to share the Yale game broadcast, play-by-play blackboard charting, and refreshments starting at one o'clock tomorrow afternoon in the large common room of the Union. The Union Committee announeed the smoker last night...
When his boys go to the dressing room at halftime, Crisler lets them rest for six minutes. For the next five, he explains with chalk and blackboard what changes have to be made in their tactics. He does it without dramatics. If Michigan has a big lead at halftime, Crisler always asks, as his players set off toward the field: "What's the score?" The proper answer, delivered in unison: "Nuthin' to nuthin...