Word: rans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...surface, the Bobby boom seems incomprehensible. Robert Kennedy, the ruthless kid brother, the vindictive Senate investigator of the 1950s who made no secret of his admiration for his onetime boss, the late Joe McCarthy, the heavy-handed hatchet man of 1960 who ran Jack Kennedy's campaign the way Captain Ahab ran the Pequod, the glowering, omnipresent Attorney General who always seemed to be under fire-Robert Kennedy upstaging the greatest vote getter of them...
Back at 4. The flash point was the routine arrest, in a Negro neighborhood, of a twice-convicted Negro car thief suspected of a third offense. When the suspect broke and ran, a policeman dropped him with two shots in the hip and side. The action naturally pulled a crowd, but it was neither large nor truculent. Among the curious onlookers, however, was Carmichael. "We're tired of these racist police killing our people," he shouted. "We're going to be back at 4 o'clock and tear this place...
...computer brain to run through the student's record of instruction and achievement and pick his next drill. One reading drill, for instance, consists of teaching the student to combine the initial sounds r, p and b with the endings an, at and ag, to make ban, pan, ran, bat, pat, rat, bag and rag. As each word flashes on the screen, the taped voice pronounces it. Then, for example, the computer's taped voice asks the student to touch the word ran on the screen with a "light pen." A correct response brings an encouraging "Yes. That...
...incorrect answer brings remedial exercises. If the student answers rag instead of ran, he evidently does not understand the basic concept being taught, so the computer goes back over previous drills. On the other hand, if he touches ban, he gets remedial exercises in initial sounds. Unlike a human teacher, the computer keeps abreast of the student, holds his attention, never gives up, pushes him to perform at his best. At any moment, the computer is giving its whole attention to only one student, but it works instantaneously on a "shared-time" basis and easily covers all 16 students...
...wife while he cradled her head in his arms to stop her from smashing it against the rocks. He tried to carry her downhill, but, after falling several times, he placed her in the shade with her head elevated to lessen the bleeding. He then ran down the hill in search of help; what he found was the African farmer and his friends, who gave him a beating...