Word: taught
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...learned my final lesson from a young gentleman named Freddy, a 4 ft. 8 in. bruiser. In our school playground, with what seemed like the whole school watching, he taught me I wasn't a fighter. The cause of our battle has long since been forgotten (at least by me--Freddy, who got into rows like this almost every day, has probably forgotten, too) but the humiliation of my disfigurement--just a bloody nose, really--lives with me today...
...Dukakis comes to Harvard he would follow in the steps of his predecessor, former governor Francis W. Sargent. Sargent taught a seminar at the Institute of Politics following his defeat by Dukakis in the 1974 general election...
...hunters. Patrick Hulbert, 14, of Pittstown, slides down out of a van and watches closely as Carlson checks his deer. So does his companion, an ardent deer hunter and gun-dog breeder who has been taking him hunting for the past four years and who, it turns out, taught him how to shoot. But not, presumably, to talk dirty. Most New Jersey hunters may have spent opening day with the boys. Pat Hulbert went gunning with his mother...
...enrollment of 3,400. At a well-promoted $60 per credit point, New York's Mercy College has rented space for adult education in a busy Yonkers shopping center; Mercy also has a branch 1,300 miles away in Miami's "Little Havana," where bilingual courses are taught. Says a school spokesman: "We build approaches to possible courses as one would market a product...
...becoming acquainted with the rules of conduct and the prevailing manner of any people," wrote St. John de Crevecoeur in 1782 about his years in America, "is to examine what sort of education they give their children, how they treat them at home, and what they are taught." Among the most vivid documents tracing our evolving attitudes toward children are the works of American artists. Using their portraits as a kind of visual social history, Emory University Graduate Student Rosamund Humm organized a show called "Children in America," at Atlanta's High Museum of Art now through...