Word: teacher
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Writing Teacher Man," said Johnny, drumming his ballpoints. "I have a question...
...Dick Wordsworth," said the rugged, corduroyed, craftsmanlike writer-teacher. "Give your name, shoot your questions...
...position. He angled the unconscious sky diver so her chute could open readily and, at 2,000 ft., with some six seconds left, yanked the rip cord on her emergency chute, then pulled his own rip cord. The two sky divers floated to the ground. Williams, a fifth- grade teacher from Post, Texas, landed on her back, suffering a skull fracture, nine broken ribs and a perforated kidney -- but alive. In the history of recreational skydiving, there has never been such a daring rescue in anyone's recollection. Several attempts have ended with both chutists crashing into the ground...
...Mansions is balanced on two provocative images, a cross section of a nautilus shell and a big Victorian house, "with all its rooms and this naked freckled woman waiting in one of its chambers." The story itself has the nacreous quality of an old memory; the narrator, a biology teacher in a declining New England mill town, recalls his affair with a California woman who is married to the city's last factory owner. The period is the early '70s with its antiwar politics, new feminists, ecology, astrology and unrevocable sexual license...
Sallie Knighton, 26, moved back to her parents' suburban Atlanta home to save enough money to buy a car. Her job as a teacher provided only enough money to cover car payments and an additional loan she had taken out. Once the loan was paid off, she decided to take a crack at a modeling career. Living at home, says Knighton, continues to give her security and moral support. "If I had lived away," she says, "I would be miserable still teaching." Her mother concurs, "It's ridiculous for the kids to pay all that money for rent. It makes...