Word: homework
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After announcing an innovation of his own-worldwide fellowships for work by students at the U.N. as a memorial to Adlai Stevenson-President Johnson pledged himself to take on an immense amount of homework. He promised to read all the reports emerging from the conference...
...infiltrate French Indo-China. At Canton's Whampoa Military Academy, Ho demonstrated his skills as a disciplinarian. Any student-agitator who failed to show sufficient diligence was promptly betrayed to the French when he infiltrated Viet Nam. Most of Ho's pupils quickly learned to do their homework, but teacher's pet was the son of an Indo-Chinese Cabinet chief, a lad named Pham Van Dong, who today serves as Ho's Premier...
...class and take time to pick it up, you've lost an hour's material." Classes run for six hours a day five days a week, interrupted by two two-week vacations throughout the year. Students are expected to spend three hours or more daily on homework...
...credit (and the blame) for his mephitic machinations, partly because he carefully left few letters or other memorabilia, a full-length biography has never before been written. Author Sarnoff, 46, a Wall Street broker by profession, pays little mind to literary style or organization, but has done his historical homework thoroughly...
Part of Vellucci's influence derives from the wide range of people he has met and has been able to impress. And Vellucci does impress them. At City Council hearings, though his question periods are long and often boring, he has obviously done his homework, sometimes better than the people he questions. In a group, he is immediately able to sense what the group wants to hear from him, and to adapt himself accordingly...