Word: grammars
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...school, each boy can select two from drugstore-type racks, keep them or exchange them with other boys -and no one tries to keep track of them. Fader also advises constant practice in writing. Boys are encouraged to keep a daily journal, which is never corrected for grammar or spelling, only checked to see if the boy is trying...
...sixth grade the U.S. students are out in front in arithmetical reasoning, grammar and reading comprehension, are tied in vocabulary, and lag slightly in computation and spelling...
...fellow who escaped the stigma of being a high school dropout only by never dropping in, James R. Jones, 37-year-old Grand Dragon of the North Carolina realm of the Ku Klux Klan, lives mighty high on the hog. Though he never progressed past grammar school and has worked until recently as a lightning-rod salesman, Jones, who lives in Granite Quarry, N.C., drives a 1964 Cadillac as well as a 1964 station wagon, and seemingly has plenty of spending money. Soon, if all turns out as planned, Night Rider Jones will become a night flyer...
...Africans do all the cooking. The overwhelming majority of blacks are allowed to go only as far as grammar school-"a waiter's education," as one African puts it. The nation has only three African lawyers, a dozen African doctors and not a single African in a key civil-service post. The few blacks allowed to sit in the legislature are powerless and afraid, for police-state laws allow the regime to confine any suspected troublemaker indefinitely and without explanation. The African congressmen, moreover, were all nominated by essentially white parties: the two major African political organizations have long...
...versatile, beguiling imp of a clown. She can fumble a cigarette between her teeth like a crazed nicotine addict and fire off machine-gun bursts of smoke. She can walk as if her body were an afterthought, or collapse in a chair like a punctured accordion. She can chew grammar like bubble gum, or make English ring with the elegance of George III's crystal...