Word: lightened
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...French government's latest stab at educational reform. The reform frees lycee (secondary school) students, who take their first modern foreign language at the age of eleven, from the obligation of starting a second language when they are 13. The government's intention was benign: to lighten what Paris pedagogues have come to view as an excessively heavy academic burden. Instead, the idea has stirred up fierce opposition...
...carefully heightening my responses... I swept my hair back from my damp forehead... I cut in to lighten the air heavy from adversary debating...
...first act of the Committee on Undergraduate Education has brought credence to Dean May's promise of extensive curriculum reform. If approved by the Faculty, it will considerably lighten the course load for most Harvard-Radcliffe undergraduates...