Word: riet
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from being the work of drunken printers, this is Britain's Initial Teaching Alphabet −a nue wae too lern too reed and riet that Education Minister Sir Edward Boyle last month pronounced "a remarkable success." Only about half of Britain's seven-year-olds now read satisfactorily; one-quarter of its 15-year-olds are semiliterate. But in careful tests of teaching reading with the new alphabet, 20 British schools have cut the usual failure rate by 80%, put most beginners more than a year ahead of their contemporaries. This year 233 schools are following suit...
...crack near a loose board. Casually, David yanked up the board, retrieved the ring-and spotted a dusty, brown paperboard suitcase. The youngster opened it and discovered that it was crammed with mon ey. Clutching fistfuls of bills, David raced to his mother's room. Mrs. Har riet Morris, who at that moment had $1.35 in her pocketbook, $1 in a savings account and $2 in a checking account, called the police. The cops stacked the old bills into a pile totaling...