Word: taughtly
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Kennedy, who had earned his pilot's license only 15 months ago, now found himself flying a plane that might as well have had no windows at all. The first rule pilots are taught in a vertiginous situation like this is to ignore the signals your body is trying to send. The inner ear is equipped with an exquisitely well-tuned balance mechanism, but it's a mechanism that's meant to operate with the help of other cues, particularly visual ones. Without that, the balance system spins like an unmoored gyroscope...
...taught English at the College for forty years, and also served as chair of the Department of English during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Afterwards, he served as the chair of the Department of History and Literature...
Former Sanskrit and Indian Studies department chair Daniel Henry Holmes Ingalls '36, who taught at Harvard for 35 years, died July 17 of heart failure in Hot Springs...
...replied that it was his mother who had the true genius for grace and had taught him what he needed to know. And the one thing his mother would have told him, he said with a sad look on his face, was that it would be shameless for him to give such a speech about either her or his father the President...
...they do. Troops also are taught how to dine on snakes ("Use care when skinning"), turtles ("can be boiled or roasted") and chicken ("kill a fowl either by cutting its head off or by placing its head under a strong stick, placing both your feet on either end of the stick while grasping the bird's body...and pulling vigorously until its head is pulled off"). Bon appetit...