Word: teacher
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rough & Tumble. Hustling Hubert Humphrey doesn't fit the usual conception of a U.S. Senator. A glib, jaunty spellbinder with a "listen-you-guys" approach, he talks and looks more like a high-school science teacher who coaches basketball on the side. He has the cyclonic attack of an advertising salesman. A charter member (and this week the new national chairman) of Americans for Democratic Action, a coalition of leftist, non-Communist intellectuals and displaced New Dealers, he has little use for the old party-machine school of politics...
...clinic and in his office, Schmidt has trained a score of urologists, whom he calls his "boys." As a teacher, he was unmercifully stern. During one operation he rapped an assistant sharply across the knuckles with a surgical instrument. The assistant retaliated by swatting Schmidt right back. The old surgeon stared angrily at the "boy" for a moment and then muttered: "I didn't hit you that hard...
Soon Powell and his educational principles became the talk of the township. The music teacher resigned: she had been assigned only to running study halls. The athletic coach quit because "My educational philosophy and that of the school superintendent were as far apart as the two poles . . ." Other stories dealt with paddling, long a traditional punishment for the unruly at Twinsburg. One student, struck on the nose, was placed under a doctor's care. A girl, caught chewing gum, had it stuck in her hair by a teacher and plastered down with Scotch tape.' The teacher was suspended...
...estate man, Pitzer graduated with top honors from CalTech, did important war work whose nature is still a secret, and became an instructor in chemistry at the University of California when only 23. As head of AEC research, the bright geometry student will have to solve problems that no teacher has ever figured...
...palette, he has not changed his political colors. The clear new light in Portinari's newest murals-including that of the Tooth-Puller-does more than please the eye; it makes Portinari, who says he paints "to teach my people what is wrong," an increasingly vivid teacher...