Word: chimed
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Those vocal on both sides of the debate contend that the high-stakes nature of these standardize tests lead teachers to teach only towards the tests. While opponents claim that teaching towards the test takes time away from other, more meaningful classroom activities, proponents chime in that teaching towards a test at least ensures that students learn core knowledge...
...rolled out our swags beneath the shade of a coolibah tree and watched and waited, ravenous, while the billy boiled. This was a truly Waltzing Matilda moment except for one seemingly un-Australian note?the chime of a camel bell and the sight of its wearer extending a long, furry neck to prune the top of an acacia bush not far from our bedrolls...
...Memorial Church bell is beautiful and complicated. Its chime, annoying to light-sleeping Canaday and Thayer Hall residents, charming to New England-hungry tourists, rings on the hour during the week, at 8:45 a.m. daily for morning prayers and occasionally 12 times in two minutes to mark a memorial service. The bell was a gift to the school in 1932 by University President A. Lawrence Lowell and weighs 5,000 pounds. Its intricate daily schedule is run by a computer which connects to a motorized ringing-device. When a service takes place, or when journalistic curiosity must be catered...
...seem to know the house or Elizabeth. He allowed her to put on a pair of canvas shoes before they left. But he told Mary Katherine that her big sister would come to harm if she made a noise. So the little girl waited, frightened, hearing the grandfather clock chime the hours away. It wasn't until about 4 a.m. that she sought her parents...
STEP 6: TURN OFF THE CHIME. Nothing triggers a Pavlovian response faster than a ringing bell, but a flashing icon in the task bar comes close. Turn both off and your urge to check will diminish over time...