Word: standardized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...French are mainly Corsicans, who have populated every office building, down to the last post office, bank and tax counter, with fellow islanders, and are demanding that under home rule not only they but their children must be guaranteed government jobs. The Arabs of Tunisia maintain the highest indigenous standard of living in North Africa, with a substantial middle class, a peasantry, and the only real trade-union organization in the Moslem world (which sent a fraternal delegate to last year's C.I.O. convention...
Today's jazz reflects the American scene, the hopes, dreams and frustrations of our generation . . . Our primary aim [is] not to play a standard, familiar piece but to convey a mood, a feeling which flows back and forth from the guy on the stand to the guy in the front row and the rows behind him. Do you catch...
...years, Park Forest's kindergarten admissions policy was conventional: any child who became five before Sept. i automatically got in. Those who reached that age before Dec. 31 had to take a standard test; last year about 10% of those tested were flunked. But then Park Forest got a new superintendent for its School District 163. A conscientious educator, Superintendent Gerald Smith concluded that the tests had become too easy; so routine, in fact, that parents knew exactly how to cram their children for them. Convinced that kindergarten is harmful for children who are not ready ("Their attention span...
...shuns obscenity in his books: "You don't use dirty language in someone's home. When a reader holds my book, we are in an even closer relationship than a guest's." Pinpointing his own faults, he says: "I overwrite. I fail to achieve the standard of excellence I strive for, and fall into mediocrity." He reads and rereads Shakespeare, but Dickens is his all-time favorite author ("He could create reality with a stroke...
...Traffic Judge was closing fast. Willie just flicked his whip; he never hit Swaps once. The California champion reached out and finished a length in front. He had covered the mile-and-three-sixteenths in 1:54 3/5 to crack the track record and tie the American standard for the turf distance...