Word: mats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Finally, the Curle-Whitten report pointed out that the Ed School seriously neglected the teaching of pedagogy, a particular handicap for Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT) students who each year graduate from Longfellow Hall into brutal urban classrooms...
Again to the Mat...
...With only 18 years of real independence, Czechoslovakia must be more a spirit than a nation. But what a spirit! Again these gallant peoples have gone to the mat for the cause of a freedom they may never enjoy. Dubcek must have known that the Soviets would never allow him to succeed. But he must have known also that they would be forced to use the only powers they can be sure of-deceit, murder, and subjugation-to keep their empire from crumbling at their feet. Perhaps now the "peace at any price" people will see Munich revisited, and come...
...than an hour." One report said that Svoboda was promising to reimpose a degree of censorship and brake the democratization a bit as part of a political compromise. The Russians, in return, would permit not only Dubcek but also Cernik and Smrkovsky to continue in office. This would leave mat ters pretty much where they stood after Cierna?except that Soviet tanks would still be in Czechoslovakia as enforcers of the agreement. There were even reports that the party bosses from Hungary, Poland, East Germany and Bulgaria might come to Moscow to give their endorsement to such an accord...
...inexpensive as it is uncomplicated. After a brief visit to the Delta last summer, Berger Shepard, who usually develops mines for the Navy, designed and built in just four days the world's smallest aircraft carrier. Constructed from pipes and a 16-ft. by 16-ft. steel mat (total cost: $300), the helicopter landing pad was fitted atop the foredeck of a 56-ft. Armored Troop Carrier, a standard craft in the Riverine fleet. The device was an immediate success, and in the past year eleven more have been rigged...