Word: goof
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...matter. To encourage it, the teachers try to steer a middle course. They refuse to insist on the old obedience, which often prevents kids from learning the consequences of their own choices. Even so, the teachers also shun the pure permissiveness that says if a child is allowed to goof off long enough, he will decide for himself that work is more satisfying. The resulting hybrid might be called "permissipline...
...production foul-up caused by another man, at least one foreman had threatened to get Johnson fired. Later, when Johnson returned from a vacation, his time card was missing and he was informed by letter that he had been dismissed for taking time off improperly. It was a personnel goof, but Johnson saw a conspiracy building. On the fatal day, he was ordered to unload the ovens, a job generally conceded to be the worst in the plant. He refused and was suspended. An hour later he was back in the plant, ready, in the words of one worker...
Cavett sometimes seems to be in the same state of unresolved dialogue with himself. He has been known to let his temper flare over a staff member's goof, despite his own wild disorganization and vagueness about money matters. He says he is apolitical and generally avoids taking firm positions on the air; yet once, faced with a guest who defended U.S. policies in Viet Nam, he ignored the rest of his guests and argued against the war. In his most publicized flap, he succumbed to pressure from ABC and the White House and put an SST proponent...
...Move," a traditional blues reminiscent of "Come On In My Kitchen" and "Sittin' on Top of the World." The Stones use Mississippi Fred McDowell's arrangement; it is by far the most primitive blues they've cut. It's great, even if it was very likely intended as a goof...
...that all sounds can be spelled identically. Example: "too bee, or not too bee: that is the kwestion." Children later switch to conventional spelling with little apparent strain. Still other systems concentrate on the 80% of English words that are phonetically regular. To teach letter sounds, they use goof-proof sentences like "I ran. The man ran. Dan ran." Despite the resemblance to deadly Dick and Jane, the authors claim that such repetitions build remarkable phonic clarity in young minds...