Word: twi
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...Twi & Pushtu. Inevitably, some ventures end in trouble. When corpsmen overcame a Senegalese tribal taboo against selling rice, farmers stopped growing it because the crop had lost its religious importance. An instructor watched helplessly while typewriters distributed in Ethiopia turned to junk for lack of care. Language training for the corpsmen was once squeezed into 50 hours, and one slum worker in a Chilean callampa did not have enough Spanish to ask how to get to the bus that would take him to work. "At times they miss the mark," Vaughn confesses. "And when they do, it's certain...
...back on target, Vaughn has upgraded pre-assignment training until it accounts for a quarter of his budget. Instruction has been stretched from eight to 14 weeks, with a minimum of 300 hours of language tutoring. Courses are offered in 183 tongues, including Twi, Tswana, Sesotho, Pushtu, Waray-Waray and Bicolano...
Dick Stuart blasted two home runs, one with the bases loaded, and led the Boston Red Sox to a sweep of a twi-night doubleheader with the Los Angeles Angels last night...
...first edition of 35,000 copies sold out the first day. Franklin has gone on to feed the Middle and Far Eastern appetite for books ranging from Ethan Frome to Gone With the Wind, from The Spirit of St. Louis to The Universe and Dr. Einstein. Ferdinand in Twi. Franklin's biggest single venture is in Iran, where in 1957 it launched a handsome Golden Book geography. Royalties were so abundant that Franklin turned them into a loan for building a first-rate printing plant in Tehran, staffed by the newly trained graduating class of an orphan asylum...
...since few of the countries have any kind of reference books. With its new Ford money, Franklin is also thinking about untapped markets from Spanish-speaking Latin America to French-speaking West Africa. Soon due for Africa: a first edition of Ferdinand the Bull in Ewe, Fanti and Twi...