Word: caning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...least one quaint custom of British education has not changed since Tom Brown's Schooldays: the tradition of "six of the best" for misbehaving pupils. Although the cane and the strap are still essential equipment for every self-respecting headmaster, public indignation against corporal punishment is on the rise, and the Labor government would like to abolish it for good...
Never Naked. Although such clear cases of excessive beatings may be rare, there is no doubt that caning in British schools is almost as prevalent as it was during the 19th century. One survey by a London School of Economics professor turned up more than 350 beatings in just four schools last year; in one of them, the boys averaged two beatings each a year. The approved schools in England and Wales listed 2,968 beatings last year. Local education authorities have the legal right to inflict corporal punishment in Britain, and the Home Office even provides some rules...
...three hours on election night, party workers made 6,500 telephone calls to Republicans in the district, urging them to vote. The most enthusiastic volunteer was Romney. He recorded stirring endorsements for Licata, and bustled around in the district-despite an injured calf muscle that made him use a cane-for an afternoon of door-to-door and store-to-store stumping with the candidate in tow. Licata, for his part, campaigned on the promise that he would be "100% behind the Governor's program...
...Everglades, and may even be part of nature's balancing equation. In recent years, however, man has upset that equation, raising the question whether drought may not be the permanent future of the Everglades. Vast reclamation projects have turned swamps into bean, corn and sugar-cane fields, which not only partly block the natural flow of the Everglades "river" from its headwaters in Lake Okeechobee, but also have first claim on the area's water resources. When water is short, little if any is now left over for the wilderness. Immune for centuries to permanent damage from natural...
Somewhere in the upper left hand corner of Robert Downey's mind dances a little vaudevillian with cane and striped hat. Downey often discusses his work with him. The product of their collaboration is the most excellent and funny Chafed Elbows...