Word: homework
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...young Marlon, better known in those days as Bud, life was an unbroken series of contests: Who could eat fastest, hold his breath longest, open his mouth widest, tell the biggest lie, do the least homework? One day he and some other boys invented the best game of all: Who can sink farthest in the quicksand along the river bank without hollering for help? (Luckily, nobody won.) Bud and sister Frances (now Mrs. Richard Loving, a painter, living in Mundelein, Ill.) ran away from home regularly every Sunday afternoon. On Saturdays Bud rummaged devotedly through the neighbors' rubbish, came...
First across the finish line, after 4 days 13 hrs. afloat, was John Nicolas Brown's famed, 73-ft. black yawl Bolero, leader in two other Bermuda races. But when committeemen had done their homework, they found that Malay, 40th to finish in a fleet of 77, had been at sea for 5 days...
Lessons in Washington. While she was in the capital, Eva Jenkins saw little of her husband outside the hearing room. He was working an 18-hour day, holding conferences, interviewing witnesses, and studying the case after the public sessions ended. At first there was more homework than he was able to do. He had arrived in Washington with astonishingly little knowledge of the issues, procedures and pitfalls. One example of his lack of background : he did not realize that there was serious dispute about the merit of whether Joe McCarthy's headline-grabbing hearings at Fort Monmouth had been...
...search of prestige, power and patronage. Today a good Tito Communist is expected not only to tread the delicate ideological line between Russian Stalinism and Western capitalism, but to spend a good part of his time attending ward meetings, canvassing his neighbors like a Tammany heeler, doing his homework in Marxism and paying party dues that range up to 3% of his wages...
...campaign and voted for him. But Texas Republicans, far from originating his appointment, had to be told who Henry Holland was before they could give him political clearance. Not politics, but a need for the kind of man who would plunge right into such drudging homework as memorizing the names of his future colleagues, dictated the choice of the new Assistant Secretary...