Word: textbooks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...power at all. Putting his experience into practice, he acted like a different leader during the Cuban missile crisis. He made it bluntly clear to Nikita Khrushchev that the U.S. was prepared to invade and overrun Cuba if the Russians did not remove their missiles. The result was a textbook settlement for a nuclear confrontation: both sides could claim a victory of a sort. The U.S. had erased a Communist threat, and Khrushchev could tell his people that he had prevented a U.S. invasion of Cuba...
Paul began the course at about 370 WPM and now does his textbook reading at about 1200 WPM and novels at 1800 WPM. Both rates represent a minimal three time increase over the rates of the proficient college reader...
...recent dean hunts. Succeeding Griswold at the Law School is Derek Curtis Bok, 37, son of a former Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice, an authority on labor law and a member of the university's faculty since 1958. Co-author (with Harvard's Archibald Cox) of the classic textbook on labor law, Bok has had experience as a strike mediator and is well liked by his students, who consider him less frostily distant than Griswold. Heading the Divinity School is Stockholm-born Krister Stendahl, 46, an ordained Lutheran minister who is regarded as one of the top New Testament...
...Oliver E. Byrd grades solely on the number of abstracts of articles in medical journals his students turn in -and he tells them how many abstracts will make an A. He has abolished examinations, gives one test that includes multiple-choice items asking, for example, to "name the required textbook in this course." He bans note-taking in class because it doesn't allow the students to become "intellectually involved with me as I talk." Learning should be "an enjoyable and even thrilling experience," says Byrd, who normally gives about 80% of his students...
...cold sick" 11a) If this isn't Capitol's inaccurate estimation of "Grab a lock of", then the Beatles have created a nonsense in the spirit of Lewis Carroll, one that (intentionally) sounds like the first phrase. 12) i.e. panties. 13) mumbled in the background. 13a) cross between "textbook" and preceding word. 14) hippies with pot. 15) i.e. they're snide. 16) an awful English pudding. 17) literally a fish dish of the same grade as semolina pudding; more likely is an abomination of "filcher", meaning in this context a hippie so degraded that he has to steal, violating...