Word: booth
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What is indisputable is that as the 20th century comes to a close, to the three Rs must be added a battery of services, counseling and all-around student care. "This is the last line of defense, high schools," says Mike Booth, the head of San Pedro High's health department. "Fifty percent of my class is from single parents. But society doesn't give us the means to take care of them. We have seven minutes between each period. We're overwhelmed, overwhelmed by family problems that used to get taken care of at home. We're trained...
...pipes--just in case. Officials of the water utilities association said that people would be able to taste the chlorine and it might be more "than they could handle." Health experts recommended showering in a ventilated area to avoid breathing poisonous chlorine gas. The Washington Post set up a booth downtown and invited 31 people to take the waters. Of those, eight preferred the bouquet and je ne sais quoi of swimming-pool water to the District's finest, and seven couldn't tell the difference between...
Among the stranger pursuits of science these days is the effort to exhume dead celebrities. Meriwether Lewis, of the pair of famous Northwest explorers, is the latest to be marked for elevation. He joins a lengthening list that includes President Zachary Taylor, the parents of Lizzie Borden, John Wilkes Booth, Jesse James, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Marilyn Monroe and the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lion...
...reason offered for unearthing these notables is to determine how they died, or if they were as dead as they were originally said to be. Forensic experts wanted to exhume President Taylor to discover if he was poisoned, and Booth and James to see if in fact they occupied the graves that were assigned to them. One assumes that in the case of the Bordens someone wanted to count the number of whacks...
John Wilkes Booth has become a candidate for unearthing because 22 of his descendants claim that an innocent man was gunned down by soldiers and that Booth was permitted to escape. That would suggest a government plot to kill Lincoln. The crackpot notion that Booth did not shout, "Sic semper tyrannis" after the shooting, but rather "Sic semper tyrannosaurus," thus suggesting that he was buried under the American Museum of Natural History, has been dismissed out of hand...