Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...flying out of Laughlin A.F.B. near Del Rio, Texas on separate missions, crashed within a 24-hour period, killing their pilots. Air police rushed in, set up roadblocks to screen both crash sites from view. The Air Force ruled out sabotage, tersely ordered the grounding of some 25 sister ships, and clammed...
...Speaking of matters monetary, what's with the missions? They must be perking, if all the lower grades are as busy in their behalf as ours. There are penny parades, raffles, candy and cooky sales, statues and holy cards and rosaries to buy: you name it, Sister thought of it last week. (As I understand the parade, the children march around the room, dropping pennies in the mission bank until they run out of funds, the object being, of course, to stay on their feet.) For the upper grades, the approach is more subtle. You forgot your...
...mention of books leads to homework: Where is it? When I finally asked one Sister why there couldn't be more of it (hardhearted mother!), she explained that hers is a split class: two grades in one room. She teaches one class in the morning and assigns 'homework' for the afternoon, when she teaches the other class. If I understand the procedure, some of our children actually attend school for one-half of the day . . . No wonder we often sense a lack of discipline when the children report the day's activities...
Nebraska Farm Boy. These basic facts of genetics were becoming known about the time Geneticist George Beadle was born in 1903. His father ran a small, progressive farm near Wahoo, Neb. (1900 pop. 900). His mother died when he was four, leaving him, his brother and sister to be mothered, after a fashion, by a succession of hired housekeepers. He remembers farm life in general with pleasure, but he still dislikes cream because he had to skim it off endless milk pans...
...Slip me a spare match, sister?" inquired one tweed-beaten young man at the corner. Portia didn't smoke; and moved on in injured innocence...