Word: skips
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...school boards began to listen. New designs often emphasize the penny-pinching Spartanism that pioneering architects borrowed from industrial buildings. And many a school board's haggling habit of comparing prices per square foot (U.S. median: $15.99) drives away architects. Some boards would just as soon skip hiring an architect in favor of prefabrication...
...spot at Parker since boyhood. A Marine 2nd lieutenant in World War II. he attended Harvard Business School, joined the company in 1949 and was put in charge of foreign operations. Handsome and hardworking, he often arrives at the office at 6:30 a.m., likes to skip lunch and work until evening. He pilots his own helicopter, is a sports-car buff. Last year he built his own car, raced it in the Elkhart Lake, Wis. races (it broke down after 30 miles of the 100-mile race). ¶Edward H. Heinemann, 52, quit as vice-president in charge...
...avowedly opposed to prewar Japanese policy. Thus encouraged, most of Japan's educators reverted to the Marxist beliefs so many of them had held in the 1920s. Nikkyoso, the 600,000-member Japanese teachers union, soon fell under Marxist domination. Preached at in their classrooms, often encouraged to skip school for political demonstrations, a whole generation of Japanese has grown up in an atmosphere of reverse McCarthyism...
...point is keenly ironic, and many moviegoers will wish that Wilder and Diamond had lingered longer to drive it home. But they skip along like a couple of mischievous kids, serious about nothing but fun, much too shrewd to lecture the grownups-they might cut off a fellow's allowance. Indeed, Director Wilder in this picture establishes himself as one of the cinema's most skillful creators of comedy, low, medium or high. There is a great bit of buffoonery in which the bachelor hero uses a tennis racket as a spaghetti strainer. There is a piece...
Even at Harvard, which requires three achievement tests (most colleges ask none), the applicant can skip English if he is weak in it. "Where does [this] leave the teacher of senior English? Completely out of the running." And so Marson quit to avoid being little more than "a class room baby sitter...