Word: carr
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...MILDRED CARR Bartlesville, Okla...
...substituted for sound intellectual development." The trouble is, he said, they are substituted all too often. His proposal: "Remove all peripheral subjects (from the four-year high school curriculum). Concentrate these subjects in a 13th school year for those who want vocational education." ¶From Dr. William G. Carr, executive secretary of the National Education Association, came a reminder to fellow educators that "not all our critics are our enemies." Obvious although unnamed targets of his remarks: two officials of the National Association of Secondary-School Principals (an NEA affiliate) who sent a round-robin letter to 16,500 high...
...German dive bombers roared off into the sky, and the stocky young woman-one of countless uprooted victims of the Nazi armies advancing into France-scrambled out of the ditch. Said calm Mathilde Carré to a companion: "There's almost a sensual pleasure in real danger, don't you think? Your whole body seems suddenly to come alive...
...Mathilde Carré had green eyes, "somewhat fanglike" teeth and so much self-confidence that at school she had been nicknamed Little Princess. A sometime nurse in Paris, Mathilde made her way to Toulouse in occupied France, where she became the mistress of Major Czarniawski, a Polish intelligence officer. He enlisted Mathilde's help in forming an Allied intelligence network. Her way of curling up in a leather chair and nervously scratching its arms with her fingernails brought her the nickname under which she became famous: The Cat. Years later, though, a British security guard remarked...
...What will be the world's eventual verdict of her?" asks Author Gordon Young, a Paris correspondent of the Daily Mail. By the time the reader is halfway through Author Young's dramatic, well-told tale, the verdict has already imposed itself. Mathilde Carr was one of those half-human pathological types, living between reason and madness, against whom, as often as not, a world of law has no real weapons...