Word: homework
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Homework Gives Lead...
Almost any night last week a small, trim man with a boxer's nose could be seen letting himself out of an office in the Pentagon Building and striding briskly down the corridor with a brief case heavy with homework. James Forrestal had served his country conscientiously for eight years-as an anonymous assistant to Franklin Roosevelt, as Secretary of the Navy, and finally as Secretary of National Defense. His face showed no expression but a kind of habitual pugnacity. In no way did he betray the fact that he had been marked as the victim...
...same. While the U.N. had been marking time (pending the outcome of the U.S. elections), the Jews had been busy making history. Rickety truces were now beside the point; sanctions had become impracticable. Last week, the Security Council, readjusting its sights, sat down to catch up on its homework...
Roger Lemelin, himself the son of a mulot, has drawn, in The Town Below, a thickly atmospheric portrait of St. Sauveur. He wrote it on the family kitchen table, while his numerous brothers & sisters did their homework on the other end. Lemelin loves the vivid, sharp-tongued mulots but at times he is overcome with despair over their backwardness and superstitions...
Bernard Shaw on schoolkids' homework: "If they required such overtime, day in and day out all the year round, from the Prime Minister, the Lord Chief Justice or the Astronomer Royal, they would be certified for a mental hospital. It would kill me in a week...