Word: manuals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Those who can't even find a poker game have been trying pinball for their exercise. It may not require the sports savvy that cards does, but it surpasses even typing and cigarette rolling in its development of manual dexterity...
...United Federation of Teachers safety manual advises attacked teachers: "Go down with the first blow, and stay down...
Young says he devotes considerable time to helping the students gain the knowledge and experience they lack. He follows their activities closely, and when possible, meets with them once a week. To counter the problem of rapid student turnover because of graduation, he hopes to develop a manual on "how the minority recruitment program should proceed out of this office." Young is, himself, only a one-year admissions officer. His work in Harvard's admissions office ends in June...
...high school class of 30, but the Depression made college only a dream. It took him one year to find a job as a gas station attendant; then he switched to cutting meat in a shop closer to home for $12.50 a week. Byrd studied a butcher's manual, honing skills he had already picked up tending his family's hogs. He recalls the details: "I shot them, stabbed them, cut their throats, hung them up, cut them open, rolled out the insides, cleaned them...
Michael K. Savit couldn't multiflex if he were given an instruction manual to do it by. I hesitate, though, to say anything truthful about him because I know his mother reads this column. And that's half of his audience...