Word: teached
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years I have been trying to teach American History students that Johnson was impeached. I must confess I haven't had complete success. Maybe your movie critic was one of my ex-students. At least, the following quotation from the Jan. 11 issue, "Johnson . . . who narrowly escaped impeachment by a righteous Congress," leads to the suspicion that one of my students went East...
Peacock-proud of another break from the textbooks, bluff Ben Lear hopes to give Ranger training to every young officer and noncom, send him to his new division with plenty to teach. Like every other ranker charged with training, he has watched combat reports, talked to returning soldiers. Chief lesson from these sources is that even crack outfits are jittery, indecisive and prone to suffer high casualties in their first meetings with the enemy. By making home-training courses tougher, noisier and more dangerous, the Army is confident lives can be saved, battles won more quickly...
...tell them it's got to be. Death of a legend or not, the CRIMSON is running a competition and it's not designed to bring on nervous breakdowns, probation, or draft exemption. An interested man can make the CRIMSON after a short, brisk competition designed to teach him and take him quickly...
Semanticists have worked out a basic English (850 words) to teach to foreigners who want to learn to speak American. But Americans, who are not good linguists, have been offered no such simple introduction to other people's tongues. Let's Learn Spanish is designed to teach a basic Spanish. Its pedagogical method is a succession of conversational exchanges between an unmistakable American, Joe Bishop, and a Spanish-speaking friend, Pepe Obispo...
...high-brow music when Manhattan's Marble Collegiate Church invited him to conduct its choir on the side. So far, husky, blue-eyed Robert Shaw has stuck to choruses, never attempted to conduct a symphony orchestra. But symphonic bigwigs from Leopold Stokowski to Sergei Koussevitzky have offered to teach him how. Self-consciously modest, yet with a touch of the fire-&-brimstone revivalist, he refuses to be rushed. Says he: "Up until the past year I felt more like a cheerleader than a choral director. Dawgonnit! I don't feel I have any manifest destiny...