Word: spoonful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Whenever the child's hand touches something, the teacher takes the other hand and spells into it by touch-alphabet the name of the object: doll, water, mother, mug, spoon. The child imitates the hand motions, but does not understand. Yet repetition of touch-spelled words in a framework of discipline is the only way that a spark can ever jump the distance between imitation and imagination, so the teacher is rough and unsentimental. The child kicks and slaps, and the teacher slaps back. The famous ten-minute fight between them is fully as long and exhausting on film...
...there. Step studying Serbe-Creatian Bab for a moment. Swallow your mouthful of Wheat Chex and put down your spoon. For a morning's frivolous diversion, for a moment's respite in the long and wearying ordeal of examination time, for some--gosh, kids--good old-fashioned fun, we have prepared a very special treat for you. Feast your eyes! Acclimate yourselves to the exhilarating new trends that are sweeping our University: Secondary Schools (Percentage) Radcliffe Public Private Foreign 1965 (approx...
...institute's specialists take a week to evaluate each patient in terms of physical potential, language disability, and medical and psychiatric problems before any treatment starts. Then the first physical therapy is begun: a therapist asks the patient to lift his arm as if to put a spoon to his mouth. Most likely he cannot complete the movement, so the therapist (usually a woman) gently helps him. At times she gets him to push his hand against hers to strengthen the muscles. Hemiplegic patients stay at the institute an average of three to six months. "By the time they...
Squeamish diners have long made spoon polishing a nervous ritual, and almost everywhere a dirty café is called a "greasy spoon." But an investigation of restaurant hygiene in Connecticut has shown that, of all dinnerware, the spoon is most to be trusted; it is the bar glass that is furthest from grace. In swab tests conducted in nearly 1,000 restaurants, investigators found high bacteria counts on bar glasses "almost commonplace." A count of 100 bacteria per utensil is thought to be a safe level; bar glasses regularly approached counts of 3,000. And spoons were almost uniformly clean...
...best method of improving restaurant cleanliness, says the Public Health Service, is the complaint-loud, and preferably in front of other customers. And until complaints begin to get results, prudent barflies can presumably benefit from Connecticut's experience by sipping whisky from a spoon...