Word: nea
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...This decision marks the end of our harassment, the end of our standing as second-class citizens." So said President John Ryor of the National Education Association before 9,000 NEA members in Miami Beach last week. The decision Ryor referred to: for the first time in its 119-year history, the NEA would endorse a presidential candidate. While the nod will not come until after the political conventions, it is virtually certain that it will go to Jimmy Carter...
...those in Miami Beach, many sporting UNITED MIND WORKERS or FORD IS A PAIN IN THE CLASS buttons, the decision came as little surprise. Since 1972, the 1,800,000-member NEA, the largest public employee union in the country, has become increasingly active in politics. As Ryor put it: "We're not considered nice, quiet Milquetoasts any more...
...Nea, an Athens newspaper, stated on July 22 that Trypanis was at Harvard to cooperate with university authorities for the establishment and effectiveness of the (George Seferis) chair." None of the articles mentioned the million dollars...
Nevertheless, a task force of the NEA, while recognizing the enormous disciplinary problems that teachers face, is expected in a forthcoming report to recommend that corporal punishment be forbidden. Says black Educator Arthur E. Thomas, of Dayton, Ohio, who counsels students and parents on their rights: "Paddling our children has served little useful purpose, except perhaps to teach them that it is all right for adults to beat up on people smaller than themselves...
...embrace, a traveler senses that the majestic scenery was created by incomprehensible forces. The most prominent feature of Santorini, also called Thera, is a lagoon some 37 miles in circumference. At the lagoon's center are two low burnt black mounds of smoking lava, one named Nea Kameni, the other Palaia Kameni. To the east, the cliffs of the main crescent-shaped body of land stand sheer out of the water to a height of almost a thousand feet. The bottom of the lagoon is a full thousand feet below. In fact the ship is sailing across the bowl...