Word: grammar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...studies in dentistry keep him busy 60 hours a week. He competed only twice all last season, and his haphazard practice sessions this year are limited to two nights a week. "It's always in the dark," says Long. "I used to climb the playground fence at the grammar school down the block, but the night watchman didn't like that much. So now I use a piece of sidewalk in the park...
...Diem government ruled Hoaimy lightly. There was a small garrison of civil-defense troops and a grammar school. But Hoaimy had no clinic, no high school, no agricultural assistance, no real return for taxes, and no official attention that was more than passing. Then last November, after Diem's overthrow, the Communist Viet Cong arrived. They drove off the garrison, and when the new government made a feeble effort to recapture Hoaimy, the Viet Cong ambushed and whipped an army battalion...
...help in the development of political leadership, COFO will establish ten daytime and three resident Freedom Schools--"to de-brainwash the kids," one SNCC worker said. The schools, which will operate five days a week, will include remedial work in reading, math, and grammar, as well as seminars in political science, the humanities, journalism, and creative writing. About 100 teachers--many of them professionals on summer vacation--will instruct the students, who will be 10th, 11th, and 12th graders...
John Lennon, organizer of the group, never knew his father, who left home when John was three. John went through grammar school and into art college, where he married a classmate. They have a baby son. With Paul McCartney, Lennon has written most of the songs the Beatles sing-and he coined the name Beatle to suggest the steady pounding beat of the rhythms of rock...
During his talks, Graham spoke with soft words and with harsh threats, quoted both modern statesmen and the Scriptures, and even reasoned with his audience to lead them to choose a "life with Christ." And when he met with a smaller crowd in Burr B. Graham was a grammar school teacher speaking to his children telling them what a commitment might mean in everyday terms...