Word: grammars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harvard fencing team entertained Brandeis last night at the IAB, but the evening was more like an all-night slumber party than a fencing contest. And like the nocturnal revels of grammar school teenyboppers, the thing lasted an awful long time (three-and-a-half hours) and accomplished very little...
MILES COLLEGE, founded in 1900 as a grammar school for the children of the workers and farmers in the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church, is the only four-year college within 50 miles of Birmingham that admitted blacks before 1967. Now an open-door, recently-accredited college for black Alabama high school graduates, it educates most of Birmingham's black teachers and civic leaders. All of its top level administrators and all but 30 of its teaching staff are black. One of 90 private black colleges still operating in the United States, Miles has no endowment, but survives entirely on foundation...
...only did the logic of grammar escape him but the wound left him with half vision. Unless he moved his head, he could see only half a page, half a word, half a letter. The ability to analyze was also gone. During a prolonged reschooling period, a simple statement like "An elephant is bigger than a fly" took hours of explaining before the relationship was understood. Grasping a basic geometry theorem meant up to two months of solitary "thinking," only to have the theorem forgotten days or even hours later...
...will give way to exercises designed to help a student's development. No longer will pupils be compelled to memorize long lists of irregular verbs, or to suffer punitive homework consisting of copying conjugations a hundred times over. Indeed the ministry described the traditional teaching of grammar as a "plague." Instead, children will be encouraged to talk and act freely in class. Even the scratchy pens with which French children learned to write an elegant hand are to be discarded in favor of ballpoints and felt tips...
...United Air Lines two-engine Boeing 737, en route from Washington, D.C., to Omaha, suddenly revved its engines, tilted its nose high, then struck seven houses and crashed a mile and a half short of Midway. Miraculously, the plane apparently killed only two of the residents, and missed a grammar school by one block. But 43 of the 61 people aboard the plane died, including all three members of the cockpit crew. It was the worst domestic airline crash in 1972. Among the victims were Congressman George Washington Collins, 47, a black who won a November victory in Chicago...