Word: gulp
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...things are more fashionable among the fad-conscious today than the dietary approach to health. The Food and Drug Administration has found that one out of every five Americans believes that illness can be avoided if only they gulp enough vitamins and mineral supplements or give up processed breakfast foods for cereals made from organically grown nuts and wheat grains. Americans spend $320 million a year on vitamin pills alone, additional millions on so-called "organic" or "health" foods. Last week crowds of the faithful and their suppliers gathered at New York's Madison Square Garden for a nutritional...
...Welch to ride out for revenge. This presents a problem since the scoundrels have swiped the horses as well as murdered her husband. The resourceful Raquel, of course, gets both a new mount and a new man in the person of a bounty hunter named Thomas Luther Price (Robert Gulp). Price takes her to Mexico and teaches her how to shoot. Admirably, he seldom seems distracted by her wardrobe, a pair of skintight leather pants and a beat-up poncho that flies open frequently...
Agony. In one typical case, Bartow Gulp, a Ph.D. from the University of Delaware, shocked his principal at their first meeting by thumbing through a well-worn dictionary to put a German sentence together. By now Gulp can lecture adequately in German but still cannot handle the give-and-take of student questioning. So, like many of the Americans, he teaches only eight hours a week-one-third of the normal work load...
After parental complaints, some principals refused to let the Americans teach at all; others permitted them to teach under close supervision but not to give examinations or grades. Says Gulp: "The embarrassment of having to stand daily before a class knowing one is doing the job badly is agony...
Hamburg education officials refuse to cancel the contracts-or to pay the disgruntled teachers' fare home. Even so, 16 of the Americans have quit, and as many more say they would do so if they could find jobs in the U.S. Says Gulp: "I never thought that an administrative screw-up of such proportions was possible...