Word: coverer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...land 6 to 30 miles wide along the Algerian side of the frontier. All civilians-an estimated 70,000-will be evacuated from this area, and French patrols and aircraft will have orders to shoot anything that moves within the forbidden zone. To deny the rebels cover, the French plan to burn off a huge area of scrub forest with napalm over a period of three months. "If so much as a bird flies, it will be shot down," boasted one French official. Pointing out that the elimination of one forest still left several thousand square miles of terrain rich...
Wearing paper badges with the letters TEE (Traditional Education Experiment), pupils found themselves snapping to attention when teacher entered the room or called on them to recite. On the grounds girls curtsied, boys doffed hats or bowed for Teacher Ansley; in class, all set to work to cover in seven weeks the 485-page textbook that was supposed to last all year. Though the pupils clearly dislike the bowing, and being punished by time-consuming chores, they took to their new life with surprising enthusiasm. Classroom silence, they found, made paying attention a breeze; required note-taking and constant review...
...reply. Soon, into Lamphere's room marched two deputy sheriffs with a warrant charging vagrancy. The "patient" was lying in a bloodstained bed with an oxygen tube up his nose. "Come along," said a deputy. Lamphere pulled the tube out of his nose, kicked off the bed cover, snapped: "I can dress myself." While hovering nurses protested that he was too sick to be moved, Lamphere was led off to jail...
Family Façades. Predictably, most of the girls had miserable childhoods; three-fourths came from homes broken by separation or divorce. The rest had viewed their homes as façades, papier-maché creations erected to cover a desiccated relationship, devoid of love between father and mother. Since most had seen their fathers leave home, their mothers had never made them feel welcome but had always emphasized the burden of parenthood. In rage and desperation, some girls turned hopefully to their fathers-not in an Oedipal attachment, but in hopes of nurture which, again, was denied them...