Word: ten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...state legislature did not "make the subject (sex education) compulsory in junior and senior high schools." The 1945 health and P.E. law includes ten specific health areas that are compulsory, but sex education is not mentioned...
...weekends. On Annunciation Day 5,000 Swedes took excursion boats across the Sound to Copenhagen. British railways ran 1,500 extra trains for Easter holiday traffic-last year the only extra trains had been for late-shift workers. Londoners picnicked on Hampstead Heath; a short distance from town ten carnival shows were running at once, complete with carousels and gypsy sideshows. Frenchmen made for the country too. Pierre Chander, who works at the War Ministry, took his family to Fontainebleau. They visited the chateau and went for walks in the forest. Back at work with a sunburned nose, Chander said...
...Bogotá's narrow, crowded streets, diplomats needed half an hour to drive ten blocks to the opening session of the ninth International Conference of American States. It took them hardly longer to get down to business, once they convened in the refurbished brownstone Capitolio Nacional. For these representatives of the 21 American republics, two issues overshadowed all others: 1) U.S. economic aid for Latin America, the subject latinos held most vital; 2) Communism in the hemisphere, and how to deal with...
...Calgary hosts promptly whisked her ten miles out to the Sarcee Indian reserve. There, during the Indians' annual Easter dance, Chief David Crowchild decreed that she should be known to all Sarcees as Sootz-ah-tsa (Shining Star). As Barbara Ann headed back to her Palliser Hotel suite, Calgary Albertan Reporter Art Evans took over for the final ecstatic burble: "Obviously tired but wearing the thrill of her Indian adoption like a happy mantle, Shining Star quietly slipped away to her tepee, there to dream of cool waters, soft winds, and the Great Manitou who guards the sleep...
...excellent health, he spoke about the future. "I'm not supposed to do anything," he said, "and I'm doing too much. I'm making too many speeches." For a while, he said, he will rest at Westminster, although he still plans to receive "in consultation" a group of ten coaches at his home next month...