Word: homework
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...solve it, Mrs. Covey put off her versifying and began intensive training courses for the parents. In an eight-week trial session last spring, she set up instruction classes for the mothers three days a week, and gave homework assignments to the fathers. On Sept. 1, the school started regular classes in a borrowed building. The mothers took turns conducting the play activities and the classes, backed up by Mrs. Covey's early morning instruction periods. The clinic's teaching methods (visual aids, constant repetition of sounds, the vibrations of a piano) have been copied by the children...
...swooped down on a Massachusetts barn last February and seized some 300,000 letters and memoranda belonging to the Institute of Pacific Relations. Committee Counsel Robert Morris, a patient young lawyer who was Republican counsel in the Tydings committee hearings last year, soon proved that he had done his homework well as he set up his bits & pieces of evidence...
Obviously, Lodge had influential help in his homework. Next to him at the green committee table sat Air Force Secretary Thomas K. Finletter, who is committed to the Administration's 95-group limit. He has not officially urged a 150 group Air Force, but if anyone should ask Finletter, he is behind the idea...
...first, students are not bothered with spelling; most of their homework is with phonograph records, and the textbooks they do use are spelled phonetically. Gradually, after weeks of listening to long lists of recorded words and phrases, students begin to read, starting with simple cartoon captions and working up to newspapers and regular books. Meanwhile in class and mess hall, they converse constantly, act out skits (e.g., parachuting into enemy territory), see movies with foreign languages dubbed in (among them: The True Glory, with General Dwight D. Eisenhower speaking a rippling, dubbed-in Portuguese). Finally, near...
...network TV but can't make him comfortable. Backed by the standard props of a clattering teletype machine, a Korean wall map and the usual succession of still photographs, Thorgersen nervously shuffles through news releases with the distracted air of a man who has not quite finished his homework...