Word: taught
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last week, in a tongue-in-cheek article published in the Washington Post, Ford declared that the loosening of Soviet sway over East European countries has vindicated him. "My mother taught me it is wrong to crow," Ford wrote. "But former Presidents, as well as small boys, know no greater joy than being able to say, 'I told you so' . . . I come out pretty well as a prophet...
...professorship will also increase the number of undergraduate courses being taught in modern Chinese Studies, MacFarquhar said. He said that he favors adding a provision to the chair's description that would require its occupant to teach "at least a bare minimum of courses...
...first set, the Crimson burst out to a 10-3 lead and seemed to have everything well in hand. Co-captain Shossberger taught Lowell how a proper kill is executed, Harvard style, on three separate occasions during the set. The setter for some of those kills was a valiant Burger, who played the game with a hurt and heavily bandaged chin...
...saying widely heard during the Cultural Revolution two decades ago: PREPARE FOR WAR, PREPARE FOR NATURAL DISASTERS, SERVE THE PEOPLE. Wu makes no apologies. "Of course I know the slogan's origins," he says. "But there is nothing wrong with those words. We should use more of what Mao taught. His themes were self- reliance and sacrifice. I say to our leaders, more of that and less riding around in fancy cars...
...early to teach children that their elders should be respected as models of benevolence and sobriety. Children are dissuaded from expressing hostile feelings toward authority of any description. The concept of self exists only as it is expressed in terms of the other, usually the group. Even if taught at home, such discipline is inculcated most strikingly at school...