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Word: trained (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fact, someone proposed only half-fatuously a couple of years ago that the University of Tennessee offer football as a major, with the purpose of allowing undergraduates to train for a professional career. Reading, writing, 'rithmetic? Never mind. Just pass blocking, tackling, and the personal foul in practice and theory...

Author: By Lee H. Simowitz, | Title: The Pros: Ivies Need Not Apply | 10/22/1965 | See Source »

...more formal wear, he has a backless calfskin evening dress stenciled to look like giraffe, a floor-length, tent-shaped Mongolian lamb coat that, with peaked hood attached, exposes only the eyes, and a white broadtail wedding dress with a ten-foot train. His showstopper is a black broadtail coat that is full of holes. It brings the peekaboo look to furs, can be worn over a full-length evening dress or nothing more than a body stocking-as shown in Kaplan's shows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fashion: Fun Furs | 10/22/1965 | See Source »

...Station. The cars carried 1,200 blacks returning from their jobs in the city to crowded Kwa Mashu, the native "location" ten miles away. Suddenly, reported an observer, "as I looked along the track, I saw the electric unit at the tail end topple over." With it came the train's last passenger compartment, bouncing like a toy over the jagged fill of the roadbed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa: The Wreck of the 5:28 | 10/15/1965 | See Source »

...sickening seconds before the train ground to a stop, a second coach jumped the track, then a third. For a moment, beneath the dust raised by the wreck, an eerie silence reigned, punctuated only by the screams of the wounded trapped in the shattered cars. Along the track lay bodies, some in piles, some flung as far as 350 feet away. In all, 86 were killed, some 200 seriously injured...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa: The Wreck of the 5:28 | 10/15/1965 | See Source »

...great that educators scarcely know what to make of it all, let alone how to get it taught; next week's scientific discovery can make last week's textbook obsolete. Even future vocational demands are unpredictable; not long after Los Angeles vocational schools developed a program to train keypunch operators, new machines came along to make the keypunch-and the operators-superfluous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Federal Aid: The Head of the Class | 10/15/1965 | See Source »

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