Word: schoolchildren
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Geography, much to the bane of schoolchildren and delight of their teachers, has always been considered one of the staples of elementary school education. By learning about the different countries in the world, it was rationalized, children would better understand America's own diversity of heritages...
...Schoolchildren in New York City are about to learn a happy lesson about thrift. Their benefactors are the students of a half-century ago who tucked away small change in savings accounts and then forgot about them. Their spare pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters have grown into a trust fund containing...
...opening weekend included gondoliers from Venice, laser beams playing over the Empire State Building, and 1,000 schoolchildren, police and Australian lifeguards performing the whimsical A Day in the Life of Coney Island under the direction of Jacques d'Amboise. These items attracted the attention of the station-wagon set. Other performances were, aptly, more serious and even arcane...
Brown is not without legislative accomplishments. He's particularly proud of bills mandating the use of seat belts and the testing of schoolchildren for physical or mental infirmities...
While Mrazek and 200 allies on Capitol Hill hope to bring the bill to a vote next month, Annie Snyder and her supporters are sniping from the grass-roots level. "We have Save the Battlefield battalions forming across the U.S.," she says. "Schoolchildren and veterans are writing and sending money." A former Marine officer, Snyder, 66, is a veteran of Manassas campaigns. In 1973 she fought to stop an amusement park planned for the same spot. For that victory, this Yankee from Pittsburgh was awarded the Jefferson Davis medal by the United Daughters of the Confederacy...