Word: instructive
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...they, poor things, are a notoriously shameless lot. Now, astonishingly, false eyelashes have been declared chic. And not only chic, but essential. Overnight, beauty salons have engaged eyelash "falseticians" who, for an average price of $5, will measure and trim the customer's falsies as well as instruct her on how to apply and remove them...
Harvard's dedication to such preparation, however, is less than total. Some basic policies, particularly the practice of appointing men for scholarly, not teaching, excellence, seems antithetical to undergraduate education. It is not that scholars cannot instruct, but that men who are not hired to teach usually do not. There is no incentive. Even if more teachers were allowed and encouraged on the Faculty, though, present techniques and institutions would not be sufficient. Methods of instruction must be revised, and the idea of a university community recaptured...
...summer project will not merely be a one-shot effort, Sharkey said. In addition to teaching literacy, the students will also instruct local people in the techniques of teaching. In this way, it is hoped, the project will become self-sustaining, and even spread beyond Dallas County, Sharkey said...
Cunha, who served as a Counter-Insurgency Officer on the staff of the Joint Chiefs of Staff specializing in Latin America, went on to outline a plan of military training. "Some 35 American enlisted men and officers can be used to instruct over 500 foreign military personnel in civilian construction methods. Small groups of trained personnel can then tackle problems of irrigation, housing, and trasportation in rural districts...
...extensive travels often proved useful in unexpected ways. "I had visited northeastern India in the summer of 1962," he recalled; "when fighting broke out there in October, I was the only one able to instruct our men about the terrain...