Word: knowing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...heterosexual society again ignore the subject of homosexuality, as many straights devoutly wish it could. Says Eric Rofes, a gay teacher in a Cambridge, Mass., private school: "Ten years ago, few people knew that they knew a gay person. Today, most kids grow up knowing that they know someone who is gay." Knowledge, however, does not necessarily mean acceptance...
...says his father. "There was not a trained teacher for the gifted." Said Daniel DeRoche, Tommy's principal at the Edgebrook Elementary School: "He is the kind of child a teacher dreams of having once in a lifetime. But now that we have him, we don't know what to do with him." The Irwins received permission to enroll Tommy, now a fifth-grader, in a Spanish class at McHenry High School, but even that permission was soon revoked after the board of education expressed concern about "establishing a precedent...
...Have to Be in Who's Who to Know What's What, Levenson
Francesco is dogged by a destiny that oscillates between a quest for sanctity and demonstrations of hubris. He is crowned with the triple tiara that Popes John Paul I and John Paul II rejected, to let men know precisely who is running the church. When police in Spain murder priests under the approving eyes of Cabinet ministers, Francesco revives medieval precedent and threatens to place the entire country under interdict unless the culprits are punished. When a cabal of Cardinals plots to depose him, he dispatches them into exile with all the brutal efficiency of a Nixonian Saturday Night Massacre...
...diet is simple and time has proved it safe," explains Tarnower. "People are willing to put up with the discipline and deprivation necessary because they know it works." The discipline is strict indeed. No alcohol, no snacks (except raw carrots and celery), no sugar, no oils. The dieter must follow, for two weeks at a time, a day-by-day menu that allows no substitutions. At least by the dieter. Tarnower himself changed the menus somewhat when he wrote his book. For example, the dinner that the original followers most dreaded (cottage cheese, eggs and cooked cabbage) has been changed...