Word: types
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Despite their rivalry, both organizations seemed to interpret the mood of U.S. teachers in similar terms. "We have a new type of more aggressive, more alert teacher all over this nation who wants to help determine the policies that affect him," declared N.E.A. President Braulio Alonso. "This is the beginning of a real revolution in the teaching profession." Teachers, echoed Albert Shanker, president of New York's United Federation of Teachers, a local of the A.F.T., "have to have power-this is a revolutionary change...
Most important, the red-cell units will include up to 1,000 rare types, a call for which often touches off a transcontinental alarm to round up donors. Dr. Allen points to a corkboard listing the rarest of the 500 types now in stock. A Philadelphia doctor recently phoned the center and asked, not too hopefully, whether it could find donors with an extremely rare blood type. "I don't know about donors," replied the center's duty officer. "Just tell me how many units you want." The doctor wanted eight. He got them...
...yearning little girls are standard fixtures in hardscrabble literature. Most of them, like little Clara Walpole, scheme and claw their way up from a knockabout childhood and finally wear silk dresses and live in the biggest house for miles around. But if Clara seems to be a drearily familiar type, there is a magical naturalistic quality in this book that makes her one of the most pathetically provocative literary heroines of the year...
Printers occasionally mix up lines of newspaper stories (they call it "pied type">, but one story in the New York Times last week was positively pie-eyed...
...films. This one follows a cat named Tom (Tom Baker) as he prowls bedrooms and hallways in search of birds. There are six in all, including Ingrid Superstar-real name: Ingrid von Schoffen-as a chubby blonde who refers to her overexposed mammaries as "fried eggs," and a brassy type in a pea jacket who turns Tom down because she herself prefers to make it with chicks. Some of the improvised dialogue is four-lettered, most of it unlettered...