Word: taught
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...kids all come back for Christmas--they don't come home, just back. About a hundred of them came back for the middle-aged man's funeral--he had taught them water-skiing, or they had been in love with his daughters, or both. They gathered at the funeral home, at the cemetary, at his children's house. They ate all the food the neighbors brought and they talked about how neighbors didn't bring food much anymore, about how there weren't many neighbors anymore...
...departments' reliance on teaching-fellow-run tutorials, Faculty members are generally reluctant to follow up their votes with action. No professor claims to oppose the principle of teaching tutorials, and most would agree that professors are the best possible tutorial leaders, but research commitments and understaffed departments make Faculty-taught tutorials a rare commodity. Bowersock notes that the '60s brought a flood of graduate students to the campus, and as a result, some Faculty members view the phenomenon of a professor-led tutorial as "an abnormal practice...
...revive Faculty commitment to the tutorial and devised a plan, to take effect next fall, which will require every Faculty member to take part in tutorials, either by teaching an individual or group tutorial, advising a senior thesis or teaching a special seminar. Departments with predominantly teaching fellow-taught tutorials must offer these special seminars--all run by full-time professors but containing more students than a tutorial--which sophomore and junior concentrators may take for one term in lieu of tutorial. In addition, the legislation mandates a student-Faculty committee in each department to oversee its tutorial program...
...crunch that was caused by the cutoff of oil from Iran earlier this year taught the world how deeply dependent it is on crude from that tortured land. Lately the export flow has been back up to 3.3 million bbl. per day, but there were reports last week that production is dropping, and once again the supply is endangered. A shutdown of Iranian production would put the U.S. in a tough position. Oil stocks are already very low, and consumption would have to be reduced by at least 1.7 million to 2 million bbl. per day. "We would hope that...
...Saxon root words and short sentences for readers of the Times, who were suffocating on polysyllabic, Latinate English." If he had models, he says, they were E.B. White's "Talk of the Town" pieces for The New Yorker and his mentor at the Times, James Reston. Says he: "Reston taught the Times to write English...