Word: lightly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more homework, sparked them to want to boost their children's grades. If parents were too uneducated to help with studies, he said frankly, they could at least buy dictionaries and give children a place to work. "Integration didn't put us in too good a light," he told the parents over and over. "School is important business. We have been low man on the totem pole, and too satisfied with...
...cone rode an extraordinary cargo: two young female monkeys, Able and Baker.* Monkey Able, a greyish, 6-lb. rhesus, was a graduate of a school at Walter Reed Army Institute of Research in Washington. D.C., where she and her classmates were taught to press a lever when a red light flashed. If the lever went unpressed, the monkeys got electric shocks in their furry behinds. Monkey Able was also conditioned to being strapped into a capsule, to wearing a miniature helmet and tolerating noise, vibration and the indignities attendant to the attaching of instruments to her body...
...would support her when the nose cone plunged back toward the earth. The capsule, a 250-lb. cylinder 41 in. long and 18 in. in diameter, contained a heating and cooling system and provided a change of air every 30 seconds. Before Abie's eyes was the light that would flash red. and close to her skinny fingers was the button that she had been trained to push. Monkey Baker, a graduate of the Naval Aviation School of Medicine at Pensacola, was a fluffy South American squirrel-monkey weighing only 11 oz. Wearing a tiny helmet, she rode...
...Light Infantry Ball should fill a satisfactory number of evenings for readers interested in a leisurely tour of the war-torn Confederacy, complete with side trips into murder, miscegenation and skulduggery in the higher echelons of the rebel government...
...LIGHT INFANTRY BALL (476 pp.)-Hamilton Basso-Doubleday...