Word: grades
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...children are now being taught Tourist Appreciation from the fourth grade on so that we natives may serve the visitor properly...
Given the audience, the quality of the nostalgia stirred is something less than an exercise in historic imagination. Said one 26-year-old, looking back on the golden age of Beatledom, "I just remember everybody screaming in the seventh grade." Or as Charles McGinnis, 24, put it with some awe, "This is the closest you are ever going to get to seeing the Beatles. It's the one chance...
...maintaining the peace. The soldiers, whose pride had been shattered by the 1971 defeat, once again found themselves taunted and reviled by demonstrators for supporting an unpopular government. "Zia, Zia, be-hiya [Zia, Zia, shameless]!" became a popular slogan against the army leader. Four brigadiers and several dozen field-grade officers in Lahore resigned rather than follow orders to fire on unruly mobs...
Dialogue from a grade-B Mob movie? No, it is the tape-recorded musing of Donald B. Yarbrough, 35, associate justice of the Texas Supreme Court. Added to Yarbrough's other troubles, which range from 17 civil suits to a forgery indictment to an 84-count disbarment petition, the recording may well herald an early end to one of the strangest Texan judicial careers since the heyday of Hanging Judge Roy Bean...
...conversation." · Washington's best-known bookworm has stacks of new reading for the supper table. First Child Amy Carter, 9, is taking a special four-day-a-week "enrichment program" at George Washington University's reading center this summer. Amy, who starts the fifth grade in September, and a dozen or so other fourth-through sixth-graders will read and compile handbooks on the subject of transportation. They will also take field trips to Washington's Air and Space Museum, ride the Metro and travel down the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal on a mule-drawn barge...