Word: groundful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Teachers, students, and parents all agree that the city's vocational schools are hopelessly inadequate. Boston Trade School for Boys is the dumping ground for the city. Its machinery is run-down; its faculty is way too small. Since many students are just marking time in classes, incentives are low, and dropouts are high. Boston Trade Schol for Girls is straight out of a Charles Dickens novel. It occupies what was once a gracious mansion which has now become incredibly dilapidated. Cooperative work-study programs like the one in Dorchester High School offer courses only in upholstery, cabinet-making...
...voted on the perforation below and there was no way to identify which perforation came from which ballot. But occasionally a man would sign his name on the ballot and the mark would come down across the perforation, and whenever this happened, someone would challenge the ballot on the ground that it was possible to go through the signature slips and find out how he voted. And we lost some 22 ballots this way. But anyway, along about midnight the vote was counted." The result was 1813 for secession, 5 against...
...port of Pontianak, where they live in dismal squalor. The Chinese are crammed into makeshift quarters, bathe in muddy, sewage-filled canals and wander aimlessly along the waterfront, many of them without homes or hope. Pontianak's Communist propagandists could easily use these displaced Chinese as a breeding ground for more unrest and tension...
...Cavalry (Airmobile) and South Vietnamese troops routed two battalions of North Vietnamese regulars, killing more than 250. U.S. Marines south of Danang killed 99 North Vietnamese in a day's battle. Not far away, an Air Cav reconnaissance helicopter team got in a shooting match on the ground and killed the regimental commander of the 3rd Regiment, 2nd Division of the North Vietnamese army. On him and his party were five pounds of important documents, including maps showing all of the U.S. positions near by and the N.V.A.'s regimental battle plans for the near future...
...Since Simpson and Keyes are juniors, the pros will have to wait for what one scout calls "two of the finest football players I've seen in 15 years." A 9.4-sec. man in the 100-yd. dash, Simpson was college football's No. 1 ground gainer with 1,415 yds. and an average of more than 5 yds. per carry. He can also throw passes and catch them-and a lot more. "If a coach put him in as a defensive back," says one scout, "I'm sure that in ten minutes...