Word: train
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...actually "Communist"-a fact that had long been as plain as the beard on Fidel's face (TIME, July 27, 1959 et seq.). State Secretary Rusk repeated earlier assurances that the U.S. is not planning "armed intervention in Cuba," and President Kennedy said that "we are not now training and are not now planning to train" an invasion force of Cuban exiles...
...backyard barbecue in the evening, and can spot, swoop and pluck without so much as a change in stride or loss of one of the 50,000 seeds. The second major type abhors garden work of all kinds, but when forced, kneels and begins working his way along the train of crab grass with such insatiable preoccupation that he soon disappears down the block, leaving behind a trail of bald spots...
...Free Diet. The schools' function is to train the men entrusted with the power plants aboard nuclear subs and ships-about half the crew on a sub-and the training is aimed strictly at making sailors think. ("Hardware" courses come later at land-based nuclear plants.) The curriculum is a fat-free diet of pure math, physics, chemistry, electronics, engineering and health physics (to guard against radiation) that goes on for seven 50-minute periods a day, plus an average of four hours of homework done in a tiny, distraction-free cell. Teachers are on duty for help around...
...reconciliation with his wife-if only he could bring her to religious ways. A solution, he thought, would be to become a flying missionary in South America and to take his family there. He even asked Piedmont for a two-year leave of absence so that he could train for the work...
Monro noted that the Student Council "is not a legislative body, it is a representative one" and said it was time to get rid of the "class anachronism" that now exists. He added that "we are trying to train people for democracy, but we do it with a benevolent despotism...