Word: scratching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bets are down: the U.S. is relying more heavily than ever on college education to shape its destiny. To get into college, kids claw for high marks even in grade school. Parents scratch for dollars, plunge into debt. State taxes soar. Yet how the bet comes out depends on solitary teachers in secluded classrooms?and the number of bored, hostile and inadequate college teachers adds up to something between a serious concern and an outright scandal...
Inevitable, ACCION invites comparison with the within already existing institutions, in diverse setting; she Accionista work exclusively in urban slums and start from scratch to build a community organization. ACCION is more selective, taking only about one in ten applicants as compared to one in three for the Peace Corps. ACCION's attrition rate is also higher--15 per cent to the Peace Corp's 5 per cent. This figure doesn't represent a higher dissatisfaction quotient, however. ACCION prefers to let all those go who can't match its demands for professional minded, dedicated activists. Because the Peace Corps...
...landings and takeoffs a day). Firing with deadly accuracy, they lobbed 200 shells into the base in 20 minutes, ignited a 420,000-gallon fuel tank, smashed the enlisted men's transient billets, and destroyed four parked aircraft and damaged 29. The Viet Cong escaped without a scratch, leaving seven Americans and a Vietnamese dead, 182 wounded...
...every dirty trick you can think of," said Portland, Ore., Police Lieutenant James E. Harvey to some 80 housewives, career girls and students. "Scratch his eyes out. Bring the heel of your hand up under his nose and break it. Smash him in the larynx and he'll have difficulty breathing. Tromp on his instep, that's always very good. And use your knee as hard as you can in the groin. You'll drop him to the ground -and he'll be a very sick fellow...
...general jabbing at vital areas. Hatpins* are oldfashioned, but very useful: "If you hold it by the top you can make holes in people." High heels and key rings are excellent for leaving marks: "Hold the key ring in your palm, make the keys extend through your fingers and scratch. We won't have any trouble identifying...