Word: waken
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Meanwhile Seretse was working to waken Bechuanaland politically. He formed the multiracial Bechuanaland Democratic Party, opposing Black Nationalist Phillip Matante ("the Lion of Bechuanaland") and Peking-oriented Motsamai Mpho. At one political rally, a back-country tribesman who could not pronounce the word democratic referred to the party as Domkrag-Afrikaans for automobile jack. Seretse adopted the jack as his party symbol ("It represents slow, silent power"), and last week it lifted him to victory. The red counters designating Seretse's B.D.P. flooded the ballot boxes, and 28 of the 35 seats in Bechuanaland's newly-elected legislative...
...Hyannis Port, the President's mother had just returned from the country club golf course when Niece Ann Gargan rushed to her with the news. Back at the Kennedy house, Rose decided not to waken her napping husband, instead summoned Boston Physician Russell Boles Jr. to see if Old Joe, who is 75, could endure the shock of the news. Dr. Boles said he could, and Teddy, who had flown up earlier, told his father the next morning. Said Boles afterward, "He took it with characteristic courage." The night of the assassination, Caroline and John Jr. were told that their...
...offer General Education courses that differ in prerequisites as well as content. This is all the more reason for preserving a common element in science instruction. The strongly science-minded student will move directly into course work with a Department; the humanist may not look for a course to waken his scientific interest. Consequently science in the program is most important to freshmen who arrive uncommitted, and particularly for those who come from schools where science was neglected. Their General Education course may leave them unmoved; it can also be an important confrontation...
...kind hearts are not enough to waken young minds. That job takes deep knowledge of a subject and the ability to translate it. On both accounts, says Mayer, U.S. teachers score low. In part, this is the legacy of progressivism's pseudo science of "educational research," which insists that children not learn ahead of schedule. Emphasis on curiosity, says Mayer, "has simply disappeared from educational literature...