Word: grammar
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...been and is a threat to the political and economic foundations of the South, and the Mississippi Highway Patrolmen, as guardians of the current order, responded to this threat by impressing upon the students-as did the people in South Carolina who overturned a bus of black grammar school children-that, as one student has testified, "We will still have policemen shooting down blacks with sadistic looks and grins saying, pick up this nigger here and that nigger there...
...decades to come, Australia's development will be closely intertwined with that of Japan, and Australians are growing increasingly aware of that fact. Even now, the country's best secondary school, Geelong Grammar, where Britain's Prince Charles was once a pupil, is teaching Japanese to 200 boys. Japan is already Australia's second most important trading partner (after the U.S.), and that trade has quadrupled in the past ten years. But the nature and extent of the relationship are as yet undetermined. Writes Peter Robinson, the Sydney Morning Herald's specialist on Japanese affairs...
Rather than wait, France has mounted an unequaled campaign to keep its language alive. The ubiquitous Alliance Francaise today guides more than 500,000 students a year through French grammar and the stylistic nuances of Rousseau, Racine and De Gaulle in the 1,200 language centers it maintains around the world. It is supported partly by the government, partly by ordinary citizens who respond to leaflets pointing out that "for 10 francs-the price of a cinema ticket-ten Chilean children can be given an hour's French lesson." Some of the Alliance's more illustrious alumni...
...special projects that they design themselves. For example, students might be interested in measuring their height or strength over a long period of time and could learn arithmetic in this way. Or they could do interviews with other students with a tape recorder and learn about conversation, English, and grammar. Learning would be possible without the pain of failure and repetitious drills...
After a 14-hour train journey to Aberdeen, in the north of Scotland, the Americans were demolished 43-0 by a club of Aberdeen Grammar School former pupils. The Gordonians, another local club, whipped the visitors 39-3 two days later...