Word: blackboarding
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...room has become so crowded that a waiting list is started on the blackboard. Even the three old terminals at the back of the room, which Nat says are "so slow and noisy and made you spend all Saturday night doing your homework," are being used...
...woman marches in and accosts a student leaning against the table, staring at the blackboard where half-erased math problems and messages are scrawled. She asks to use his terminal for a short while. She has finished her first computer program and is eager to see if it works...
...Proposition #9: Only stricter traffic laws can prevent accidents," reads the blackboard of a fifth-floor classroom in Boylston Hall. The conservatively dressed professor of Arabic sits down at the table before the board, spiral notebook open before him, and begins the day's debate...
...however, parody is replaced by a rude inversion of values; to the music of "Mame," a brother who pulls wings off flies and a sister who carries a onearmed doll confess their mutual hatred in starkly unfunny terms. A similarly violent mood underlies "The Hard Time," a sort of Blackboard Jungle in reverse, with the students--both hoodlums and teacher's pets--successfully defying a whitehabited singing...
Fouraker drew a graph on the meeting room blackboard to show the increasing pay advantages Harvard graduates enjoy compared to graduates from other business schools...