Word: snow
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...grant funds a course in literacy teaching strategies, a study group publishing a literacy learning handbook, and the training of a Hispanic tutor for bilingual Cambridge children, said Mary Snow, associate professor of education and special education at Lesley...
...project is meant to implement what we know about how children learn to read and write," said Snow, adding that Lesley College teachers who participate in the project "serve as researchers as well as teachers...
...optimistic sort of person, you can probably survive In The Mood. But why bother, when Snow White is still in theaters...
...their front yard, snow melts off six other refrigerators, piles of tires, three Maytag washing machines, a dozen bicycles, several bed frames and various orderly piles of useful treasures, all harvested from the dump. Their toaster, broiler, blender, coffeepot, clock, heaters and just about every other electrical item in the house are also from the dump, repaired by Ron, along with down jackets, chairs, front ends for cars, wood, French windows and jars for canning...
...each character looks back at Theo and searches for clues to explain his fate, a complex portrait slowly emerges, not only of a troubled young man but of an entire community losing its ideals and energies. Theo's marriage to Snow Mullins, a red-neck girl with a ninth-grade education, was a gauntlet thrown down at the Quicks' precarious sense of stature, indeed at Mountain City's communal illusion of social propriety. Theo's younger brother Rafe remembers, "I mean, it was embarrassing at the wedding, seeing how Mom's friends tried to keep their faces from showing...