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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...
...dress shirt off his sweating body, and, hell, what's that he's got on? O my God, a strike T-shirt! This guy's out there dancing in his underwear with a big, red fist stencilled on his belly. And, you could hear the tempo quicken, and everyone gulp down another drink, and throw themselves into saving abandon...
What is so special about the largemouth bass? I asked. "They'll battle you all the way into the boat and then bite your leg," said John. "They'll hit anything that moves," said Anglin' Sam. "They'll gulp down crawfish, rice birds, ducklings, water moccasins-anything," said John. "They're the smartest, most unpredictable and most sought-after fish in the world," said Anglin' Sam. "And they taste good," said John...
...their cars, for example, Americans have increasingly demanded power-operated windows, seats and other gadgets, which require oversize engines that gulp much more gas than would be needed merely to propel the auto. There are some indications that factories may also be wasting power. Energy consumed per unit of industrial output fell steadily from 1920 through 1966, but since then it has been rising. One consequence is that the nation's known reserves of easily recoverable fuel declined in the late 1960s, at least in relation to consumption. That situation was reversed in oil last year because...