Word: homework
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rule-and it is not personal to him-take for granted they know a lot of things, and if they knew so much, they would have all the money and we would have none." When Fulbright began to question Baruch about profits from short selling, he showed how little homework he had done for his own investigation. Baruch said that present restrictions on short selling to drive the market down are a good thing. He also pointed out that selling short often means low net returns for the risk involved because the speculator pays full income tax on any gain...
...said, "Poland has always been a corridor for attack on Russia ... It is not only a question of honor but of life and death for the Soviet State . . ." And it was not a question of magnanimity alone. The Curzon line, he explained pedantically (for he had learned his homework much better than the other two of the Big Three), had been "invented not by Russians but by foreigners ... by Curzon, Clemenceau and the Americans in 1918-1919." How could he be "less Russian than Curzon and Clemenceau...
...world was moving out of doors. But from Corvallis, Ore., to Philadelphia, Pa., gymnasiums still echoed to the dull thwack of basketballs bouncing off backboards. Some time before the school year ends, the outsize collegians on the topflight U.S. basketball teams will have to buckle down to their homework, but this week they will be mainly occupied with somewhat less academic matters: the N.C.A.A. and the National Invitation tournaments...
...invites her husband to "make yourself comfortable, dear, in your slipper-gripper Mistletoes," or tells the children, "jump into your perma-sized skijamas, kids, while I make you some Dagwitches with diced cream and superfection strawberries?" Can he find a poor speller among those same children, who, doing his homework, writes "kar-pokits" or "kon-veen-yunt?" If so, the cross-pollenating Madison Avenue ad men would turn handsprings...
...spends the next two hours in princely recreation, mostly horseback riding, but also golf and tennis. Late in the afternoon he returns to Montellano Palace for further study in history and languages, stops in time to change and have a breathing spell before dinner. After dinner there is reading, homework and sleep...