Word: grasps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hugh D. Auchincloss, her mother, half brother and half sister drove to Hyannisport from Newport, watched doggedly through the nominating speeches, floor demonstrations and roll call while Jackie painted. Jack called just before the balloting and just after, but in the quiet mood of Hyannisport Jackie didn't grasp that he had won until her mother and stepfather came over and kissed...
...either teach it mechanically or try to liven it up with "interesting" problems, e.g., computing interest. Such teaching is completely alien to the child's mind, says Beberman. "Children are not miniature adults. They have a thirst for the abstract and the world of fancy." They may even grasp math relationships faster than reading and writing. As famed Swiss Educator Jean Piaget put it after introducing complex topological math to six-year-olds: "They knew it anyway. It is the language and thought of the child." All of this still escapes most math teachers. When they introduce equations, they...
...floor, or preferably on a large, but firm cushion, and stretch out your legs in front of you. Fold in the left leg and put the left foot so that the heel is pushed well into the fold of the groin . . . Then fold in the right leg, grasp the foot and place its sole uppermost on the folded left leg . . . Sit up straight and then without pausing lean the trunk forwards as far as possible, stretching the arms vigorously behind you, right hand grasping left wrist. . . Breathe deeply in this position for a few seconds, then...
With the premiership safely in his grasp, Lumumba promptly renewed his offer to make Kasavubu President-a chiefly ceremonial office under the proposed constitution. To everyone's surprise, Kasavubu accepted...
...biology. They estimate that a first-year biology student must absorb more strange-and unpronounceable-new words than he does in any first-year foreign language course. Then they plan to organize the facts of biology around a few key ideas so that the students will get a better grasp of the whole. "We want biology," says Zoologist John A. Moore of Columbia University, "not plants plus animals, each in splendid isolation, as is so often done in many courses. A Cook's tour of the plant and animal kingdom is no longer considered an effective way to proceed...