Word: grading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Blanket grading. This eliminates competition entirely by requiring a teacher to award every student the same grade, usually a B. Even most anti-graders, however, consider it an unsatisfactory method...
...agreement to forbid the dumping of highly toxic substances into the open seas. The new convention, which must still be ratified by individual governments, bans the dumping of a "black list" of horrors, including high-level radioactive wastes, biological-and chemical-warfare agents, long-lived pesticides, mercury and heavy-grade oils. Less dangerous substances-nickel, zinc, and silicon compounds-are put on a "gray list" and can be dumped only with the official permission of national governments...
...wanted good seats for The Game in '67 and the Yale faculty gets royal preference. So there I am on the fifty-yard line, surrounded by nobility, eminence and high-grade boons. Meanwhile on the playing held. Brian Dowling is hitting Calvin Hill with some incredible seventy-yard passes. But a Harvard upset looms. Ric Zimmerman too is connecting with long-distance bombs. I lose control, I stand, I shout for Harvard. Two rows above, my action unhinges a normally normal academic. He swings his umbrella and I almost become the first decapitation in Yale Bowl. Very funny. Still worse...
...production manager in an electronics parts manufacturing firm in Mishawaka, Indiana, Doyle attended the powerhouse of elementary school football in the area--St. Joseph's of Mishawaka. Catholic elementary schools in the area were never allowed to tangle with public schools of the same grade level. The outcome would predictably turn the stomach of even the most blood thirsty grid fiend...
...first footnut is squirreled away after the book's first sentence, and the 40th by page 14. But the book clonks with special resonance because it accepts as simple truth Thurber's cheerful misreminiscence (in The Middle-Aged Man on the Flying Trapeze) that his grade school baseball team in Columbus had a 22-year-old centerfielder and several other athletes who had spent seven or eight years in the fourth grade...