Word: instructed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...scenes of war as recounted in the often melodramatic reports of broadcasting journalists. In the early days of the Viet Nam war, the carryover of this bravura style was evident in the TV reporters who, packing pearl-handled revolvers and cocking their helmets at a rakish angle, would instruct some G.I.s to fire aimlessly into the bush so that it seemed as though they were in the midst of battle...
...British rule behind them, have a very definite advantage over the West Indians and Pakistanis. (These three along with Cypriots, form the most important group of immigrants). It is in the school-room that these disadvantages are most glaring. Some Cambridge elementary school teachers find themselves trying to instruct a class where almost half the pupils may not speak English properly. This is the kind of set-back that is very hard, if not impossible, to overcome in a large class. These children may stay permanently behind...
...time she had finished bubbling and won her Oscar, Sandy's market value had more than doubled, to $125,000 a picture. A garden-variety Hollywood Venus would henceforth instruct her agent to go after only big-budget, reserved-seat extravaganzas and leading men of maximum candlepower. Not Sandy. Her concern is not the price but the property, not her image but her interest in the work. She settled on The Fox, based on a D. H. Lawrence novella, in which she plays a lesbian, hardly a career-booster...
...Russell B. Long, who is chairman of the Senate Finance Committee. They showed their power a year ago, when it was first learned that the U.S. team was considering bargaining on the ASP at the Common Market's insistence. The Senate promptly adopted a resolution urging the President to instruct the U.S. negotiators to agree only to provisions under the 1962 Trade Expansion Act, thereby aiming directly at the chemical issue...
...Detroit police regard the dawn hours of Sunday, when the action is heaviest in many slums, as a "light period." The precinct captain rushed containing squads to seal off the neighborhood for 16 square blocks. Police Commissioner Ray Girardin decided, because of his previous success with the method, to instruct his men to avoid using their guns against the looters. That may have been a mistake...