Word: textbooks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with good ammunition. The cobblestones of Paris, first laid in 1185, cracked against police helmets in the antiroyalist riots of 1830. They helped arm the socialist revolutionaries of 1848. They provided the enduring arsenal of the Paris Commune in the great battles across the barricades in 1871. With such textbook examples of tactics, it was hardly surprising that the student rioters of 1968 found the paving stones of the Left Bank a prime weapon in their nightly insurrections against the Gaullist regime...
...their drive to indoctrinate the populace. In Communist-controlled areas, a political lecture is an intrinsic part of everyday life. For the youngsters in Viet Cong-run schools, the effort to instill the "spirit of struggle" begins right in the first grade. Ten-year-olds learn from their chemistry textbooks how to mix and use explosives, and in physics they are taught how to build a bunker so as to make it safe against various kinds of allied shelling and bombing. If they do well at these lessons, they are rewarded by being declared "Uncle Ho's good nephew...
Such is early mathematics, Communist style. By contrast, the South Vietnamese government takes the conventional approach. Sample problem from a government textbook for children of a comparable age: "Mother came back from the market. She gave Hai two oranges, gave Ba three and saved five for Daddy. How many oranges did she have...
...January 1918, the Harvard Coop reported that the war had brought a loss of $56,427.90 for a six-month period over that of the previous year. Most of the loss came in the textbook and furniture departments. Coop membership, which did not yet include a plastic credit card, fell...
...speed there is in a race, the better it is for the come-from-behind horses like Dancer's Image who save ground and energy by running far back along the rail until they start to race in earnest for home. For pace handicapping, the Derby field was a textbook case. Forward Pass fought all the way with two speed demons named Kemucky Sherry and Captain's Gig, clearing the way for Dancer's Image to romp the last half-mile in the exceedingly leisurely time of 50 seconds...