Word: plodding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most of Cairo remains the same: close, crowded and cacophonous with hard-pressed auto horns. In Imbaba, on the west bank of the Nile, camels streaked with henna still plod unknowingly toward the slaughterhouse, and gully-gully men delight bright-eyed, brown-faced children with magic tricks as they did their grandfathers 50 years ago. Imbaba's junk market is still unchanged, and bent nails and half-shoelaces are traded with solemnity and diligence. The red flowerpot of the tarboosh has all but vanished from Cairenes' heads, and Nasser has even made considerable progress in his campaign...
...review students' work and report the credit hours they deserve. Classes are small; electives are few. Science and humanities get equal stress in such ways as a senior seminar that attempts a whole vision of learning. Under a new plan, students can sail through in three years or plod through in five. They still face stiff junior-year qualifying exams, must write senior theses. Recent titles range from "Metal Ion Inhibition of Ribonuclease" to "Gerard Manley Hopkins: Instressing His Inscape...
...weapon" (see PRESS). No other President has maintained such close personal contacts with newsmen. Aware of the Kennedy method of the indirect nudge, the planted hint, the push by newspaper column, students of the Administration follow the work of Kennedy's favorite columnists as faithfully as Kremlinologists plod through Pravda's prose. And of all Washington newsmen, Charlie Bartlett is closest to Kennedy...
...children of employees and servicemen of the nearby naval base, would be labeled seventh-to twelfth-graders. But Middletown has banished grades as well as failure and promotion. Instead, subjects are broken into small-step "concepts'' to be mastered over a six-year period. A student may plod in math while simultaneously flying ahead in English. For dullards, it may take seven years to get a diploma. Whippets can finish in five years. Sidney P. Rollins, the education professor at Rhode Island College who devised the plan, calls it "a sophisticated version of the one-room schoolhouse...
Beginning with President Lowell's active administration in 1909, the CRIMSON began to dig itself out of several ruts. Action pictures began to appear, and the typographical format was livened up. Editorials ceased to plod along, and news copy was generally sharper...