Word: chinned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Chin, now a graduate student at the Harvard School of Education, emigrated from Hong Kong with her family when she was nine. She has worked in volunteer projects in Chinatown for over five years. "Language is the biggest barrier," she says. "Without English you can't solve the other problems." Four years ago she helped found an adult education program. "We started with two or three Saturday afternoon classes in English. Some of the students had been here 20 or 30 years and this was their first opportunity to learn the language." Weeknight classes were added, along with a child...
...students work all day in factories and come right to class for two hours before they go home," Chin says. "Some want to learn English so badly, they try to come every night during the week and again on Saturday for four more hours...
...Chin devotes all of her time away from her academic work to projects in Chinatown. "Supposedly graduate students are supposed to devote every hour of their non-sleeping, non-eating time to their work," she says. "Fortunately the School of Education is flexible enough so there is room for people like me to take advantage of the real world and academic training at the same time. If the school is training educators for society, who will hopefully hold key positions and effect changes, then students will have to get real world experience. This combination of community action and academic training...
...spiky beat punctuated by rattling maracas and a shower of cowbells. A pair of trumpets blasts off in the brass brigade. At the center of the excitement a small, bearded figure huddles over the piano, sweat pouring off his face. Eddie Palmieri attacks the keyboard with fingers, forearms and chin before a sellout crowd at Manhattan's Avery Fisher Hall...
Number seven Bob Leahey lost control of his oar and caught a wicked crab. The bar handle whipped back at Leahey, hitting him in the stomach, and before he could duck his head, catching him in the chin, flipping him clean out of the shell...