Word: flunk
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...filled in the word Negroes or blacks, you flunk. Please accept a year's supply of condescending smiles. But if you wrote "women," or even "females," you are right on, grooved, with it, Queen...
...interesting result of the rush to send many men for physicals in a short period of time seems to be that the "flunk-out" rate has increased. Army bases in Boston, Colorado, San Francisco and other cities report a rejection rate greater than fifty percent. Perhaps this is a good time to have a physical...
...dozen of his humor columns over the past year, poking fun at classes, dorm life, faculty, administration, and the University police. His April 9 column fabricates a Harvard Business School Game with a monopoly-type board. The next to last paragraph of his column states, "Another interesting square is Flunk Out. Anyone landing on this one automatically-loses the game, unless he holds a Minority Group card...
...George Gallup's annual search for the ten men whom Americans admire most, so it was hardly news when Richard Nixon and Billy Graham placed first and second in the latest round. That Spiro Agnew ran a close third behind Graham was something else; Vice Presidents frequently flunk the ten test entirely, and none has ever reached so high an eminence in the poll's previous 21 heats. Hearing the news while in Asia, the Vice President reacted modestly: "Well, it surprised me, but I've never been a person to become infatuated with poll results...
...college administrator knows that most of his time is taken up with matters that concern only a relative handful of students-the few who have serious disciplinary problems, flunk courses, or are too hung-up to function well. Most rules, especially those that set minimal standards, are only a problem to a small minority, at least in a school which can be quite selective in its admissions policy. If we stopped being paternalistic about students, "making sure" they do not somehow cheat themselves in terms of how much we think they should be profiting form Harvard, the rest...