Word: crack
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...give adults a lifetime crack at formal learning, the commission wants the Federal Government to guarantee two years of college for everyone-and to put it "in the bank" for withdrawal at any age. In addition to more two-year community colleges, which this obviously requires, the commission urges a big expansion in off-campus education -correspondence courses, TV lectures, home teaching cassettes. Eventually, some youngsters and adults (including housewives, the aged and the poor) could earn "external" degrees without attending college at all. Moreover, a new system of equivalency exams would give credit for skills acquired through reading...
...Change of Mind. Flores, assigned to the crack 101st Airborne Division last month, lost no time in applying for C.O. status. His superiors shifted Flores out of combat and eventually to the 101st's Camp Eagle headquarters, pending Washington's action on his application. Before long more than a dozen other G.I.s from Flores' battalion and other units arrived at Camp Eagle, all demanding C.O. treatment...
Like a Sledgehammer. Most Canadians seemed to endorse Trudeau's action, but there was evidence that some had forgotten who made the opening play. T.C. Douglas of the socialist New Democrats accused Trudeau of using the War Measures Act like "a sledgehammer to crack a peanut." At colleges and universities in Quebec, some students boycotted classes to protest the War Measures...
...well-made novel, she convincingly suggests that the overcivilized and the barbarous are one. Yet the Atwood message is beyond formulated pessimism; it has the rhythmic cycling of hope and despair natural to life itself. A lyricism as honest as a blade of grass in a boulder's crack keeps thrusting through. And so marriage, under the toughest scrutiny by Atwood the novelist, eventually is seen by Atwood the poet as "the edge of the receding glacier" where we crouch- where painfully and with wonder...
When the government of Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau declared a state of martial law in Canada last Friday, it announced that the sole purpose of the emergency action was to crack down on the underground separatist Front de Liberation du Quebec...