Word: call
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This was bad enough, but it was not all. French authorities rigged the Arab elections in favor of stooges whom the Arabs call beni oui ouis (yes, yes men). Mendes was more candid about this than any top French politician had ever been before. "We discredited democratic procedures. The ballot is counterfeit. The ballot boxes are stuffed. The winners are picked by the government...
...pronounced kuh, that e is a vowel that is sometimes long and sometimes short, and that tie is a syllable that is pronounced tul would be to confuse him hopelessly. Far better at first, say the experts, is simply to teach him kettle-even though he may sometimes call the kettle...
...fourth grade, students absorb the alphabet and are taught how to use the dictionary-a technique which the jargon-prone experts call a "location skill." They are also taught to vary the pace of their reading and even to know when to skim. "Far too many children and adults," says Arthur I. Gates of Columbia University's Teachers College, "have habituated one speed of reading which they use on all materials and for all purposes...
...seventh curtain call, Conductor Mitropoulos took the score from its stand and held it aloft as if to give Composer Shostakovich his share of the applause...
...university should be grateful to those who support it, but it should not be fazed by the attacks of one who not only does not distinguish between academic freedom and military security, but who can so easily call fellows "felons" when he disagrees with them...