Word: peg
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...impressively documented report came along last week demanding a more understanding attitude for them-specifically for teachers starting out on their first jobs. Consider, says the Metropolitan School Study Council of New York City, the case of a hypothetical Peg Woodruff...
...council's booklet, The Newly Appointed Teacher, tells it, Peg is a sensitive girl, half scared to death by the thought of walking into a strange school and facing her first class. There is a lunchroom across from school; Peg heads in there for a cup of coffee first. As she thinks about what lies ahead, she orders a second cup. The question Peg asks herself: "How did I ever get myself into this spot ... in a strange town, a strange school with no one in it who knows me or cares about me? I'll probably make...
...Peg's college training seems as worthless now as the advice from her mother, ."All you have to do is tell them stories and let them color pictures." The new teacher finally crosses the street and walks into the school building, but she decides that "the children are lucky. Most of them know what they're walking into. What about the new teachers? Nobody thought of us, I guess...
...want you to tell Peg that Bob's all right. He's losing a lot of weight. She should be happy about that. Give my regards to all the neighbors there. Please, please don't worry. And if you don't get my letters, understand that things aren't quite up to snuff yet. Okay? Au revoir! You know that I love you very much...
...variety of croquet. Kneeling, crouching, lining up every stray blade of grass for possible deflections, he got his second perfect game of the day. The spectators were sitting on the edge of their campstools when Reckitt made a strong finishing bid, but only a few shots from the final peg, he missed a difficult carom and the deciding game went to Hicks, plus-five...