Word: teachers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...state primary school in Communist Budapest, a Hungarian teacher asked ten-year-old Istvan to compose a sentence containing a dependent clause. "Our cat had ten kittens," said Istvan, "of which all were Communists." "Excellent," said the teacher. "Exactly right. Be sure you do as well next week when the government supervisors come." The following week she asked the prize student the same question. "Our cat," said Istvan, "had ten kittens, of which all were Social Democrats." "Why, Istvan," cried the teacher, "that's absurd. That's not what you said last week. Last week your kittens were...
...seconds held up their hands. It was Spano's turn. "The ecclesiastical authorities," he said, "should condemn your truly satanic pride . . . You speak of ... spiritual values, but side with the capitalism of America . . . Your teacher, Jesus Christ [he gulped and began again]-Our teacher, Jesus Christ, said that his kingdom was not of this world . . . the fact is that the church has betrayed the Gospel ... in its humanitarian and social aspect...
...Dona Matilde Ibanez de Batlle Berres, a woman whose chief interests are her three children and her garden, had made one of her rare public appearances in an official visit to an elementary school in Flores Department. When Senora de Batlle Berres came into one of the classes, the teacher, anxious to show off her pupils, called on an eight-year-old for the name of the wife of the President of the Republic. Blurted the radio-prepped moppet: "Dona Eva Maria Duarte de Peron...
...ladies were so moved by the story of young Olivia's plight that they raised $200 to help her out. Olivia boarded with a respectable lady and went on triumphantly as Violet. Ever since, except for a brief spell of discouragement when she thought of becoming a speech teacher, Olivia has pursued her profession with the same energy and bounce that led her high-school class to predict that she would become a "circus queen...
...next best thing: they chose a man who had been born at St. Mark's, raised at St. Mark's, educated at St. Mark's, and after four years at Princeton and one at Yale, had returned to St. Mark's as a teacher. He was William Wyatt Barber Jr., a squirish, 39-year-old gentleman with a wife named Peg and a dog named Thor...