Word: homework
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most alluring is Red Knees, who has a "massive brain" and knows "the kings of England and all kinds of scam like that." She charges. Dobie for help with his homework, gets 7? a sentence for a parse job, 10? apiece for the provinces of Canada, 80? to tell who fought in the Hundred Years' War. Her earnings buy forbidden lingerie. "Some day I will be allowed to wear black lace underwear," Red Knees explains, "and when that day comes, buster, I mean to be ready...
Having done their homework well, and being of one mind, economic ministers of the Outer Seven needed only two days last week at the Swedish resort of Saltsjoebaden to agree on the essentials of their European Free Trade Association (TIME, July 27). Member nations hope to have the final draft by October and to announce their first common tariff reductions, to be effective next July. They made no bones about their real purpose: "To facilitate negotiations" with the bigger, booming Common Market Six (France, West Germany, Italy, Benelux) and thus head off a permanent division of European trade...
Justified Summit. On all sides then, homework seemed unnecessary, grand new schemes seemed futile, and the only purpose (in Russian and British eyes) seemed to be to prepare a conclusion that would give nothing away, would solve nothing, and would merely refer things to the heads of government for a summit conference. The U.S. objective remains the removal of the Soviet threat to West Berlin, and the threat, in fact, is the real reason that Secretary Herter is talking with the Russians in the first place. President Eisenhower had made it clear that Geneva had not yet "justified" the summit...
...industry's new policy but would have the most say in whatever settlement the steel industry would make. He is no rough-and-tumble, up-from-the-mill steelman but a lawyer who got into steel via a Wall Street firm, thoroughly learned the business by hard-slogging homework...
...weather programs (36 on local stations in the East), the Atlantic Refining Co. has tried its share of stunts. But last week it took its weathermen on a junket to Florida, treated them to a lecture from weather bureau experts, gave them some charts and textbooks for homework, and ordered them, from now on, to tell their story straight...