Word: bookwork
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...salesmen manning the store at the time called Markell, who was at his home doing bookwork. Markell drove to the store in five minutes and was shown a receipt for the Glock, which, the agents informed him, had killed many of those who had died at Virginia Tech that morning. The receipt, the agents said, had been in one of Cho's pockets, perhaps the pocket of his backpack, and had been discovered when his corpse was searched...
Academic work was never Waddle's strength, and he had to push himself hard to get through his bookwork both at school and during his time at the Academy. But no effort was too great if it meant earning the respect and praise of others. His ascent was spectacular. Very soon after he passed his engineer's exam in the Navy in 1985 and returned to his ship, the Trident submarine U.S.S. Alabama, the captain, Garnett Beard, said he was sending the regular engineer on leave and putting Waddle in charge of the nuclear reactor plant that powers the submarine...
...usual stacks of lumber are occupying Leverett Old Library these days as Slow Dance on the Killing Ground, one of several House shows moving from the audition-and-bookwork stage to the run-through, starts to take shape...
...After bookwork, emergency training, rappelling, drills on setting up water supplies amd handling equipment, and a "smoke room" ordeal, the firefighters had to weather a "live fire" arranged by the academy. During the test, one man told Pastreich, "If you can do this, women can do anything...
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