Word: jacketing
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...bullet isn't something that I have on my mind when I attend lectures. Lecture halls aren't trenches and the professor isn't our platoon commander leading us in a campaign against subject material. I have yet to hear a Gov professor throw on a helmet and flak jacket screaming: "Watch it boys, they've lobbed over a copy of Locke's Two Treatises of Government! Get down! Aaaaargh...
...back-to-school night. His concern about weapons was evident. "I'm pleading with you as parents to check your children before they leave home," he told them. Last year a young boy brought a 13-in. butcher knife to school. Students saw the blade in his jacket pocket and reported it. The knife was confiscated; the child was suspended...
...turned towards me, reached out a hand towards my neck, held for about two seconds and then I ran off. There was a slash in my jacket from the razor blade," she said...
...never doing this again," I fumed, ego deflated, to no one in particular as an eight-year old in a red jacket zipped past...
...never happened. But then somebody gave me a ski jacket as a birthday gift a few years ago. Somebody else bought me ski pants. Finally, last Christmas, when my sister got me a pair of goggles and an electric red hat, I didn't have an excuse...