Word: rote
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Early in the second quarter. Halfback Frank Gifford took a pitchout from Quarterback Don Heinrich, sailed off around left end, stopped short and pitched a touchdown pass to End Kyle Rote. A few minutes later, Gifford faked the Eagle defense men out of their shoes and skipped across the goal line. That was all New York really needed, but the Giants scored again, ran out the game 21-7, and earned a crack at the Chicago Bears for the N.F.L. championship...
...Japan U.S. teachers have become so popular that some schools have had to put a ceiling on the number of students they can have. In Thailand an American found that English was being taught strictly by rote, introduced songs and games that, as her Thai colleagues admitted, got amazing results...
...envisions the use of such machines to teach anything that can be taught by rote, although he doesn't want to see them restricted to such uses. He thinks, for example, that the army might use them to teach coding and communication in general where a fast and accurate response is necessary...
...Communist heroes go these days, a slim, hatchet-faced Hungarian army lieutenant named Sandor Iharos is a singular exception. For one thing, he is not a Communist Party member. All he knows about Marxism, he says, he learned by rote in school. And as a soldier he fights strictly from a desk. All Sandor really has to do is run, and he does that so well that he now holds five world records (from 1,500 to 5,000 meters). In sports-happy Hungary, excitement boils any time he shucks his sweat pants and gets to work, for Sandor...
...thrice given, by rote): "A brilliant comedienne, and therefore an extremely good actress...