Word: pupil
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Colorado General Hospital. She had been walking near a granite quarry where blasting was going on. Suddenly a stone came hurtling through the air and struck her on the head. Examining physicians discovered that besides paroxysms of vomiting, the patient had a fixed dilation of her left pupil. Furthermore, blood seemed to be seeping from her left ear, and she complained of double vision. Confronted with such classic symptoms, the doctors made a speedy diagnosis: head injury...
...doctors with her faked injuries, she confided, had been easy. She bragged that she had been in more than 50 hospitals from coast to coast, and in only one (San Francisco's Southern Pacific Hospital) had a physician got wise to her. The queer dilation of her left pupil was caused (she thought) by a mastoid operation when she was 14. She bit her lip to get blood which she placed in her ear. ("I made it appear to squirt from my ear by shaking my head.") Vomiting, she claimed, was easy, and her complaints of double vision were...
...family moved from Oklahoma to Los Angeles when Maria was nine, so that the girls could continue their studies. Maria became a favorite pupil of Bronislava Nijinska, sister of Vaslav Nijinsky. In 1942 she moved East, joined the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo. There she was spotted by Choreographer George Balanchine, who began casting her in his ballets, later married her. When he and Lincoln Kinstein organized the City Center company in 1948, he brought Maria along as prima ballerina. Since then, with Russian-trained Balanchine to supply the polish, she has been shining more brightly each season...
...There was no question ... to test pupil understanding of the meaning of democracy, the struggle to achieve it, the vigilance required to keep it." Not even in the "reading selection" had the regents seized the "wonderful opportunity to include inspirational material...
...take long for the citizens of Little Bay Side, L.I. to like the husky new schoolmaster who came to them one day in the 1830s. It was true, as one pupil later recalled, that young Walt Whitman was "always musin' an' writin', 'stead of tending to his proper dooties." Yet he seemed to love children ("what a hum of little voices! . . . How pleasant . . . How healthful!"), and children seemed to love him. He never used the rod on them, knew how to liven their lessons with poems and games...