Word: parently
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have to give in and adopt C.T.A. 's recipes for "sound professional practices." As angry Little Lakers see it, this would mean a drastic curtailment of Superintendent Stanley's drive for high teaching standards. Equally significant is C.T.A. 's heavy influence (by size alone) on its parent, the 812,000-member National Education Association. The "professional" N.E.A., which shuns teacher strikes, is being pressed toward militancy by teachers' unions. N.E.A. needs a competitive economic weapon, and C.T.A. has provided it. If this method works in Little Lake, the sanction may spread to other N.E.A. groups across...
There, while keeping a tyrant's control of the parent paper, he founded the Paris Herald. Typically, the sheet was eccentric (for some reason, Bennett was amused by a letter written by an "old Philadelphia lady" who wanted to know how to change centigrade degrees to Fahrenheit; the letter ran, without explanation, in every issue until Bennett died 18 years later). Typically also, under his editorship, the Herald's Paris edition became one of the best papers on the Continent...
...rays. Says the Kempe report: "To the informed physician, the bones tell a story the child is too young or too frightened to tell." Since child beating is almost always repeated, X-ray signs of fractures in different stages of healing are almost always a strong indication of parent-inflicted injuries. "The radiologic features are so distinct." say the Colorado doctors, "that other diseases generally are considered only because of the reluctance to accept the implications of the bony lesions [bone injuries...
...players considered him something of a grind; he smoked a pipe, drank only beer, rarely went to the movies, read history books. But in his first year, he batted .341 in the minors, and last year he clipped off .294 in 13 games, after being called up to the parent club...
...resume is impressive all the same: time and again he has breezed through energetic sales campaigns that have brought anemic magazines and television programs safely into the black. In 15 years on the Madison Avenue beat (with Hearst, NBC and, most recently, Interpublic, Inc., parent corporation of McCann, Erickson), New York-born Culligan has acquired an unshakable reputation as "a tiger of a salesman" and a gifted executive...