Word: student
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Standing side by side in an open-top black Mercedes-Benz, the statesmen rolled off on the 22-mile drive into town. It took them 1 hr. 40 min. Church bells pealed, car horns honked, railroad whistles shrieked. Boys in Lederhosen, overalled factory workers, student nurses in starched blue uniforms, black-clad seminarians, tens of thousands of flag-waving schoolchildren shouted dozens of greetings, all meaning "I Like Ike." Eastward through the summer-evening haze, the President could make out the Hotel Petersberg, opposite Bad Godesberg where Neville Chamberlain stayed while conferring with Hitler on the road to Munich...
Swedish Dress. Earlier in the week. Rockefellers rained from the sky on Norway. The first to come was Steven's mother, Mary Todhunter Clark Rockefeller, who embraced Anne-Marie and described her to reporters as "wonderful." Next came Steven's brothers: Michael, a student at Harvard, and Credit Analyst Rodman and his wife Barbara, who were the only passengers on the chartered KLM plane that brought them from New York. At week's end Governor Nelson Rockefeller flew in with the rest of the family: Steven's two sisters, Mary. 21, Michael's twin...
...evidence, Graber put together a montage of gems from recent themes produced by Muhlenberg freshmen: "Now of days it is quite difficult to find a student who doesn't have a devil-makes-hair attitude and take his educational opportunity for granite. The student does not do his upmost in his studies, nor does he possess the self-insurance necessary for him to face the complexing problems of college...
...reason for such college illiteracy, Graber firmly believes, is TV's strictly phonetic teaching. The more the student watches TV, the more he learns new words through spoken rather than written language. "Because of the slovenliness of American speech and the ease with which words can be misunderstood, he does not hear the word correctly. Since he does very little reading, he has no idea that he is using the wrong word, for he has never seen the expression in print...
...Zionist and longtime student of the Nazi victim-he wrote a stage version of The Diary of Anne Frank that was never produced-Author Levin has evidently done thorough research on what happened after the Gestapo's fateful knock on hideaway doors. He has also covered civilian life as the enemy dourly lived it. In his attempt to follow up the actual Anne...