Word: teachers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Brien was also a teacher and trustee at the Samuel Adams School for Social Studies, which recently went out of business after being branded "an apparent adjunet to the Communist Party" by the Justice Department. It is probably such connections as this that led the Daily Worker to remark that an O'Brien victory "would be one of the most important Progressive victories in the nation," an accolade which the candidate hopes to balance off by his outspoken Catholicism...
...unity we have achieved in foreign policy required leadership. It was achieved by men-Republicans as well as Democrats-who were willing to fight for principles before these principles became obvious to everyone. It was not achieved by the people who copied the answers down neatly after the teacher had written them; on the blackboard...
Party with Cuties. He moved his blonde wife, Dolores, a Sunday-school teacher, to a $40,000 English-style house on twelve acres of oak-studded land, with a big playhouse for daughter Kathleen, 4. He rolled around town in a chauffeur-driven car. He liked to peel off $100 bills from a fat roll to pay for a haircut, wowed Edwardsville's drugstore cowboys by flashing $1,000 bills. He staked the town's bowling team to a trip to a Detroit tournament. He bought a duck hunters' show place in Arkansas, dropped...
...just the kind of idea a math teacher would think up. Clearing House, a magazine for teachers, reported a proposal guaranteed to make every U.S. schoolboy master of mixed fractions within six weeks. The proposal: to revise the rules of basketball so that a field goal counts 2⅞, a free throw...
...More likely, some modern psychiatrists think, he was a stupid man who blundered into an idea too big for him: the phenomena of suggestion and suggestibility. A Frenchman, Jean Martin Charcot, demonstrated that hypnotism could both arouse and quiet symptoms of hysteria. Charcot also bid for fame as the teacher of a Viennese neurologist named Sigmund Freud (rhymes with overjoyed...