Word: taught
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...price of a loaf of bread. Stung most by the Russians' ploy will be the big grain speculators, who were selling grain futures contracts short this spring and summer in the expectation that prices would fall even lower. The Soviet shortfall changed all that and taught the speculators-as well as Washington officials-a little more about the cagey Russian grain buyer...
...bucolic dairy town of Waupaca, a slim blonde farm wife named Jennifer Patri, 32, is to go on trial Dec. 6 for the first-degree murder of her hard-drinking husband, Robert. To most neighbors, Mrs. Patri seemed happily active. She taught Lutheran Sunday school, presided over a local P.T.A. and supervised a busy hog farm. The reality of her private life was, however, grim. Her husband, an auto-body repairman she married at 18, continually slapped her around and subjected her to agonizing sexual abuse. Says Mrs. Patri's attorney, Alan Eisenberg: "He apparently dreamed...
...Chancellor before annexation by Hitler's Germany in 1938; of pneumonia; near Innsbruck. Taking power in 1934, he suppressed the Communist and Social Democratic parties but then came under growing pressure from the Nazis for Anschluss, or union. After spending the war years as a Nazi prisoner, he taught political science at St. Louis University for two decades and returned to Austria...
...poor Afrikaners. It also founded the Federation of Afrikaans Cultural Organizations (F.A.K.), which evolved into an umbrella organization that now coordinates hundreds of national cultural societies. Concentrating on education, the Broederbond opposed the language policy of Prime Minister Jan Smuts in the 1940s, under which Afrikaner children were taught half their subjects in English and the remainder in their native tongue. Since 1948 the Broederbond has completely controlled the educational policy of South Africa; Afrikaner schools perpetuate the philosophy of Christian nationalism and exclusive Afrikanerism...
...referred to as administrators, and cocktail waitresses taking orders at the craps tables are instructed to call out, to the bartender, say, "Two double Scotches for C" instead of shouting the word craps. Every effort is made to dispel the rowdy, green eyeshade image of gambling. New croupiers are taught the "theory of craps," while Twenty-One dealers are told to slap their hands and hold them upward when they leave their posts to show that they are not concealing any chips. Department heads are required to write daily reports on customer complaints and answer them by letter or telephone...