Word: dead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Some Excitement." Along the Via Dolorosa all was dead. An Arab youngster bounced a ball against the plaque denoting the Third Station. At the Sixth Station, where Veronica wiped Christ's face a Hebronite Arab brushed past silently, carrying an enormous tray of bread loaves. Christendom's greatest sanctuary, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, was indeed as though it were a place of the dead...
...last week, downstream from the dangling bridge, the people of Pauna hacked through the jungle on the river banks, looking for their dead. Of the 200 on the bridge, at least 120 died...
Holt calls the teaching method "guided imitation": immediately after the native speaker does his stuff, there is dead track so the student can repeat aloud. Words are taught in progressively larger learning blocks ("I want," "I want a glass," "I want a glass of water"). In this way the student masters speech melody (intonation and speed) as well as vocabulary. By following the text as he plays the record, the student learns to read, too. But the real goal is speaking ability...
...from the beginning, the powerful Chilean National Agricultural Society led the opposition. It was dead set against the limited trans-Andean customs union that the treaty would set up. That, it said, would lead to Argentine food-dumping and put Chilean farmers out of business. Even Chilean vineyards, it contended, could never compete with the mass-produced wines of Mendoza...
...week's end, it looked as if only "modest steps" would be taken. Eccles' new plan was about dead. The House Banking & Currency Committee recommended that Federal Reserve banks be required to back their currency notes by 40% in gold, the same ratio as prewar (it had been dropped to 25% as a war measure). This would have no immediate effect; reserves are actually at 49% now. Nor would the proposed rise in the rediscount rate; it was too small to be more than psychological in effect...