Word: blackboarding
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...Political Matters. Everything went smoothly until one morning last week, when the lecturer injected some personal hygiene instruction into the program. Painted faces grew redder as he discussed physiological details, with blackboard drawings. Autumn Fragrance and Jade Object nervously lighted cigarettes, violating the ban on smoking in class. When a policeman reprimanded them, they angrily retorted that they Would not listen to such "obscene speech." The policeman drew a pistol, but a moment later retreated before the screaming and clawing girls...
...Dillon Field House blackboard and a Soldiers Field practice lot Coach Henry Lamar is molding Harvard's latest crop of prop school footballers into a Freshman eleven...
Three tentative squad lists are chalked on the blackboard and on the field the 110 men out for the team are running through defensive, offensive, and signal drills, scrimmaging with the Varsity and Jayvees-and hoping...
...pressure was off. For another six weeks now he would not have to hear a bullying proctor yell hoarsely, "Social Relations 12 sit in every other seat. Face this side of the room." And the terrifying, huge numbers on the blackboard, tersely announcing that he had seven minutes left for the last three questions. Which ones should he have taken out of the possible five? He agreed with all the statements in quotes; they all sounded reasonable, and he had put down a few odd facts he had learned in some history course last fall...
...Paris classroom last week, a pupil scrawled a familiar bit of U.S. doggerel across the blackboard: "No more classes; no more books; no more teacher's cross-eyed looks." He was an American schoolboy, and most of his 140 classmates were Americans too. The same afternoon, wilting in the hot Paris sun, U.S. Ambassador Jefferson Caffery spoke at exercises for the first six students to graduate from the school in seven years...