Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...suburban courtroom just north of Detroit last week, a high school teacher named Nancy Timbrook clutched a shredded Kleenex as she defended her actions before a judge. She admitted that she had, as charged, written a four-letter variant of the verb "to copulate" on her classroom blackboard...
While the four-letter word under discussion has become commonplace in the works of many modern novelists, its use is far from accepted in high school English classes. Any teacher who makes it the theme of a classroom exercise can expect a strong reaction - if not from the students themselves, at least from their parents. Which is what happened to Mrs. Timbrook, 36, a truck driver's wife and the mother of nine children, who teaches at Lamphere High School in Madison Heights, Mich...
...Instead of just one Festival of Life, make every day a festival and start responding with life in the classroom," said a student...
...MARCH 11 King Collins and seven of his friends disrupted for the third time a Soc Rel 153 lecture. Today Collins faces two years in jail. The prison term stems from charges apparently unconnected with Collins' classroom activities, but a strong suspicion remains that his most serious crime, in the eyes of Cambridge authorities, was that he was bothering Harvard...
Bell, who is 49 years old, had been the labor editor of Fortune magazine before coming to Columbia. He told the Times that the classroom must be kept free from outside intrusion...