Word: vo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...combination of people without jobs and jobs without people to fill them has stirred new interest in the segment of U.S. public education that educated Americans know least about-vocational education. Vo-ed, as teachers call it, is dismally inadequate to meet the demands upon it. Most U.S. vocational high schools offer the youngsters so very little that on the average two-thirds of their students drop out before graduation, as against one-third in academic high schools...
...Vietnamese girl, began consorting with the Viet Minh revolutionists, who were plotting the overthrow of Indo-China's French masters. In 1949, he set off on a 40-day trek through the northern jungles to a rendezvous with the brilliant Viet Minh ex-schoolteacher and field commander, General Vo Nguyen Giap. Over a bottle of warm champagne, which Giap bragged had been "taken from the body of a dead Frenchman," Giap explained how guerrilla warfare worked...