Word: grammars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...statue of Schoolgirl Sadako Sasaki. Sadako was two years old when the bomb exploded, and only half a mile from the explosion's center of impact. Yet she was apparently unharmed, and grew into a lively, likable child. In 1955, one month before graduating from grammar school, she developed the extreme lethargy that is the forerunner of "atom sickness." Hospitalized, Sadako began folding scraps of paper into flying cranes-Japanese legend holds that a sick person who makes 1,000 paper cranes will recover. Sadako got only as far as 644, and died...
...maternal side migrated from Ireland in the early 1800s; his paternal grandfather was a Connecticut Yankee who arrived in 1885. When John David was born in the family mansion, the Merwins owned one-sixth of St. Croix's 52,000 acres. Merwin had a cosmopolitan upbringing: grammar schooling in the British colony of Antigua; international law, briefly, at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland; Spanish at the University of Puerto Rico; a degree in economics at Yale ('43); and, after World War II service as an artillery captain (Bronze Star, Croix de guerre with silver star), another degree...
...advisory mission is plotting a coup. U.S. housewives on shopping trips have been heckled with shouts of "Yankee go home," and on Caracas' new Armed Forces Avenue, crude painted signs urge "death to the imperialistic Yankees." Venezuelan schoolchildren only seven and eight years old came out of one grammar school chanting memorized anti-U.S. slogans. In good-humored rebuttal, U.S. oilmen, who have kept Venezuelan oil flowing through dictatorship and revolution, are forming the SPCAID-"Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to American Imperialist Dogs...
...their gloom, the conference members reported some progress. Teachers who aim first at providing conversational ability, with reading, writing and grammar added later, are gaining ground. Recordings and taped playbacks of students' own speech are proving valuable. Most encouraging statistic of the report: since 1952 an increasing number of school systems have adopted plans similar to the third-grade-through-high-school proposal of Conference Member Mary P. Thompson, curriculum consultant for Connecticut's Fairfield schools. By 1955, says the report. 270,000 children were learning foreign languages in U.S. elementary schools and that was as many...
...from Steerage. In the spring of 1897, Bernard, then 7½, landed with his mother from the old Rotterdam's steer age to take up residence in the tenement slums of East Boston. Bright little Bernie skipped every other grade at Lyman Grammar School, put in a year at Mechanic Arts High School before a brother's death made him pick up a bread winner's load in his close, protective Jewish family. To get his first job at the age of 14, he started one morning in the center of Boston's business district...