Word: twig
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With that information, any good guesser who had read a couple of Robert Wilder's previous bestsellers (Flamingo Road, Written on the Wind, Bright Feather) might almost twig to the whole story...
...objective evidence of effectiveness in teaching . . . When these tests have been given in Denver, they have shown definitely that we are not 'neglecting the three Rs.' " But, says he, "if the child is taught only to read and spell, the schools have not done their job. The twig must be bent to democratic living." "Hell," declared easygoing, pipe-smoking Assistant Superintendent Hinderman, "nothing has been taken away from the schools, but a lot has been added. We can't have horse & buggy education in a hydrogen bomb...
...announced that he was organizing a Committee for the Improvement of the Denver Public Schools. Its purpose: war against general education, a return to more concentrated teaching of the traditional basic subjects, which he and his group are convinced that Denver's schools neglect, no matter what else twig-bending Superintendent Oberholtzer and his teachers may achieve...