Word: switches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first time why Paige always said that Cool Papa could turn out the lights and be in bed before the room got dark. "We stayed in old hotels and one night Satchel and I were rooming together and I got back to the room before him. Well this light switch on the wall must have had a short in it because I went over and flipped it and got in bed, and after I got in bed the lights went out. I said, 'Oh, I'm gonna tell Satchel something now.' Satchel comes in and I said...
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...noble lords can be worked into the structure of a people's monarchy, where is its laureate to be found? The official poet laureate, Sir John Betjeman, does his best, but cannot easily switch from his accustomed gentle irony to the suitably adulatory celebration of a royal love match. Here, however, fate has been kind; Lady Diana's step-grandmother Barbara Cartland has written some 300 successful novels in which the hero and heroine, after some troubled times, marry and live happily ever after. Now 80 and buoyed up by honey and vitamin pills, this estimable lady still...
Another problem, the researchers found, is that the elderly cannot easily switch from one voice to another. Given sequences of sentences recorded by different people and played back on stereo tapes as if the voices were coming from different locations, the old people were usually confused. Rabbitt asked them to repeat aloud everything said on the tapes, and though the subjects did well as long as they could home in on a single voice, whenever there was a change in voice or location, they had trouble...
...school. His worried parents took him to Educational Counselor Elizabeth Carroll, a reading and speech specialist at an agency called the Academic Resources Center. "We found out," says Paul's father, "that he had missed a lot of the basics in grade school." Carroll recommended that he switch temporarily to Denver's Academic Prep School, which specializes in remedial work. "Now Paul likes school," says his father. "There's been a real change in his personality. I give the credit to Mrs. Carroll's help in changing schools...