Word: meanness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...called a triumph for the U.S., upon public opinion at home. And there are more substantive reasons for their caution. The progress that they see-in the lowered level of the violence, in pacification of the countryside, in turning over the fighting to the South Vietnamese army -does not mean that the enemy has been routed from the field. A conventional military victory is as remote now as it was two years...
Scrooge Is Alive. That seemed innocuous enough, but the principal of one school interpreted the word "symbolic" to mean that he should ban any references whatsoever to Christmas. He sent teachers a memo forbidding not only carols and trees but gifts and Santa Claus as well. In protest, outraged fathers marched around Coleman's home at night carrying Santa balloons, and 50 children picketed an emergency meeting of the school board. They carried signs reading SCROOGE IS ALIVE AND WELL IN MARBLEHEAD and SANTA HAS DONE NO WRONG-DONT SUSPEND HIM FROM SCHOOL...
Typical of Nader's battle style was his campaign for more stringent federal meat inspection at packing plants. While speed-reading the small print of a House report on Agriculture Department appropriations, Nader noticed that it urged "further studies" of the U.S. meat-inspection program. Did that mean that there had been earlier studies showing that the U.S. had a meat problem? Indeed it did, as Nader found out when he requested a copy of the little-known study at the Agriculture Department. "Nobody ever asked for this before," said the employee who handed it to him. The study gave...
DURHAM, N. H.-When the New Hampshire hockey team is playing in Snively Arena, partisan Wildcat supporters rarely allow a quiet moment. But last night there was silence, complete silence, in the rink almost throughout the evening, and it could only mean that U. N. H. was being horribly beaten...
...relevance" means something deeper than "newspaperliness," then it must mean potential for understanding and control over life. In this sense, a relevant arithmetic problem in an eighth grade text might be: The curves in Fig. 6.48 give the values of apparent crater diameter and depth in dry soil as a function of explosion veiled. Given a 20 KT surface burst over sandstone, find the crater dimensions. (Effects of Nuclear Weapons, 4th ed.) Such a reorientation in education might alter the balance of interest on the part of children away from TV or comics toward school...