Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...social problems than an educator of 30 years ago would have dreamed of. They are aware that their parents pay taxes for schools, police and garbage disposal. They hear about race riots and space flights. We must teach facts at the lower grades so that teachers in the upper grades won't have to spend time erasing an illusionary picture of the world...
NOTHING BUT THE BEST. A lower-crust clerk (Alan Bates) hires an upper-crust crumb to teach him the niceties of Establishment snobbery in this stylish, often superlative British satire...
Many political theorists nurse the notion that upper-case Issues are the only things that count; they tend to treat political personality as an interesting but unimportant sidelight to any presidential campaign. But personality and issues are inextricably intertwined...
NOTHING BUT THE BEST. A lower-crust clerk (Alan Bates) hires an upper-crust crumb to teach him the niceties of Establishment snobbery in this cheeky, stylish, often superlative British satire...
...blow might be near. Nevertheless, the citizens on Florida's Gold Coast were so nonchalant that hotel and shop windows were unboarded, luxury yachts still at their moorings when Cleo struck. Sucking up energy from the Gulf Stream and being carried along by a fast-moving upper air mass, Cleo hit Miami full force. It was the first time in 14 years that a hurricane had done that, and many new Miamians will be talking about Cleo 14 years hence. It bent palm trees to the ground, crumpled street signs, uprooted shrubs, took gravel right out of roadways. Blowing...