Word: teacher
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...conflict usually re-enacted is the siege of Fort Niagara, won by the British in 1759. But, one Saturday not long ago, the Siege of Oswego (1756) was refought, and the French and their Indian allies forced a British surrender. Afterward, Harry Burgess, 38, a Port Huron, Mich., history teacher, ranted to an onlooker in French-accented English about "thees monster," the British army. Reverting to normal English, Burgess said that partaking in such battles "gives us a private time machine...
...class came to order around a conference table in a room of Washington's National Museum of American Art. Pamela Monder, the teacher, ticked off some of the items to be worked on. "Vaseline" was one. "Cut your teeth" was another. Then there were "first come, first served" and "Dunkin' Donuts...
...writing in angry response to the article published July 11 entitled "Soviets Join Americans in Teaching Exchange," in which I was badly misrepresented. As a member of the board of directors of the organization which arranged the Soviet Teacher Exchange, and in fact as a member of the delegation which first delivered the proposal to Moscow, I am strongly in favor of the exchange and its potential for greater cooperation in language teaching and delighted that it could be implemented so quickly. Yet the remarks attributed to me in the article gave exactly the opposite impression. The quotations were taken...
...vote by a London Standard photo of Schoolboy Barry Tavner, 13, displaying his beaten bottom after he received five strokes from his headmaster for getting low grades. Ironically, Tavner, who attends a private school, will not be affected by the ban. Others have long advocated allowing teachers to strike. Said a Welsh councilman: "Sending a teacher into a classroom with no cane is like sending a boxer into the ring with one hand tied behind his back...
...School teacher Christa McAuliffe and missionspecialists Ronald McNair and Gregory B. Jarvisare not heard on the recording...