Word: sitting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...What did you do in class?' and she'd say, `I don't know.' Then, we would go through the book and do things I know she had heard in class," says Rogers. "That was really frustrating, but then I would bring her brownies, and we would just sit and talk for the first 20 minutes and stay over an extra...
Rosin adds, "The kids really get into it--they know we're not going to sit at a desk and beat information into them...
...While tutoring at the Fletcher School, Powell says he found what time he tutored affected his success. "There are some situations where [tutoring] works better than others," he says. "I saw the kids at the end of the school day when the last thing they want to do is sit there while their friends are having fun." He says that one of the students he had been assigned to tutor would sneak out of school to avoid the sessions...
...become citizens of tribal homelands, rather than of South Africa, and would reinstate the infamous pass laws that until two years ago determined where blacks could live and work. They also want to abolish the four-year-old tricameral system that permits Asians and people of mixed race to sit in Parliament, and seek to restore the ban on interracial marriage, repealed...
...notebook at the ready, savoring the gospel choir. "One thing that's great about the Jackson campaign is the music," observes Kongshaug, who has been traveling with the candidate since January. "Sometimes I'm disappointed when the gospel music ends and Jackson begins." Still, Kongshaug quickly adds, having to sit through the same impassioned speech several times a day is better than his previous CBS assignment, answering phones for the Evening News...