Word: grammars
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pentagon is now teaching foreign languages to more than 200,000 students, biggest such Babel in the U.S. In Washington, D.C., and Monterey, Calif., it runs two of the world's most effective language schools-founts of the speak-first, grammar-later method...
...main qualifications for a Foreign Office job were a good family, a smattering of languages, and big, clear handwriting. During Lord Palmerston's 16 years as Foreign Secretary and Prime Minister, state papers were constantly returned from 10 Downing Street with testy quibbles on the writer's grammar or his handwriting, which, Palmerston insisted, should slope forward, not backward "like the raking masts of an American schooner...
...them were copies of 15 letters Oswald had written to his mother, Mrs. Marguerite Oswald, in 1961-62, when he was in Russia, where he unsuccessfully sought Soviet citizenship, and married a Russian girl named Marina Prusakova. What the letters mostly proved was that Oswald was not much on grammar, spelling or punctuation. Excerpts...
...energetic Hyman is 42, and his staff includes a company director of 27 and a mill manager of 25. "I want to attract the same class of mind that goes into the Treasury or Foreign Office," says Hyman. "We have some with Eton and Guards backgrounds, and many with grammar school education. We're a true meritocracy...
...pink bikini, bringing a picnic lunch for Richard from the kitchen of their four-story villa. Ashore, she and Richard go around in a Jeep with a red and white striped canvas top. Burton is the company champion at flinging frisbees. He has learned Spanish, using records and written grammar. He is working well, too. With Williams and Huston behind him, it is conceivable that this movie could win him an Academy Award. "I can tell when I'm in a good picture," he says. "If by eleven in the morning I haven't had a drink...