Word: puts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Backed by four smoothly concocted "eyewitness" reports, Trud, Russia's official trade-union journal, landed a punch on United Auto Workers President Walter P. Reuther. Three of the "witnesses" were described as Reuther's shopmates when he put in a stint as a worker at the Gorky automobile plant in 1934; the fourth was a mysterious "N" who claimed to be his long-lost wife, described how Walter wooed her ("an inexperienced girl") with talk of "capitalist chains" and "bloodthirsty exploiters." After eight months of marriage, said she, "he said 'I am going to America...
...woman who was carrying a jar full of meal. While she was walking on a distant road, the handle of the jar broke. The meal streamed out behind her on the road. She did not know it, she had noticed no accident. After she came into her house, she put the jar down, she found it empty...
...reason is the teacher shortage, another the gnat-bitten nature of the U.S. English teacher's job. Instead of teaching young minds how to put meaning into words, he must pressure-cook a stew of abstract facts for easily graded objective tests geared to handle swelling classes. The average U.S. English teacher meets 175 students daily in five classes. Should he assign one theme a week to each class, he would spend four hours a night seven nights a week, plus half the weekend, correcting papers...
...getting ready to testify this week before the House Subcommittee on Legislative Oversight, Van Doren broke his silence briefly: "I've been getting just wonderful letters from wonderful people. I put the good letters in one pocket and the bad in another. When I looked I had 39 good letters in one pocket and there was only one bad one in the other pocket. I've been getting so much love from so many people that I just wish I could return it all. People are wonderful...
Troubled by House and Justice Department investigators, bedeviled by singing quiz contestants, TV still managed to put its best foot forward last week with some topnotch shows...